Young people notice when advice describes a world the adviser no longer lives in.

Advice carries the date it was formed. Guidance about work, money or study that made sense twenty years ago can be offered in good faith while describing conditions that no longer hold, and the person hearing it usually knows before the sentence ends. What gets lost is not respect for the adviser but confidence in the advice.

Before offering guidance, say when your knowledge is from and ask what has changed since. Trade some of the certainty for a question about how it works now. Young people listen more closely to someone who admits which parts of their map are old.