I generally do not take anyone's advice, but I do consider them when making my decisions. It is always better to have some basis rather than just going in with gut feelings in my bag. So yeah, I do not ignore other's opinions coz many of them are still worth considering.
And that is the correct way of thinking, when it comes to investments I see many people just looking for a secret formula to make a lot of money, which is a very important reason of why there are many television shows that are all about what are the hottest stocks in the market right now but that is not the way to invest, you need to identify which asset is going to go up before that happens.