The lesson you learned in one season may need adjusting for someone in another.

Hard-won lessons arrive with the conditions they were learned in, though those conditions rarely travel along when the lesson gets passed on. What saved you at twenty-five, in that market, in that family, with that particular amount of luck, may be exactly wrong for someone standing somewhere else. Advice ages faster than the person giving it notices.

Say when and where it happened as part of the telling, the next time you offer your experience. Ask enough about their situation to know whether the conditions match. Offer the reasoning rather than the conclusion.