Great advice for someone else can still be terrible advice for you. You’re allowed to know the difference.

Advice comes out of the life of whoever is giving it, and the fit is never automatic. What worked for a person with different circumstances, a different temperament and different pressures can be genuinely good advice and still wrong for you. Declining it is not arrogance, and neither is taking it.

When good advice lands badly, try not to argue and not to obey. Ask what conditions made it work for them, and whether those conditions exist in your situation. Usually you find either a version that fits or a clear reason it does not.