My tips for newcomers is avoid to read so called tips.
My tips to newcomers
- don't start giving tips to other newcomers
- don't give tips you don't follow yourself
- most tips you see are useless merit phishing posts
Or, way easier:

Lol, I was literally thinking of using this example in my response but you have already done it

. It's really funny and amusing to find such things where a person is trying to do something or teaching others to do a certain thing to achieve great results while you can see them having no results themselves.
It's like going to a person who creates medicine to cure baldness and make people buy his products to grow hair naturally without surgeries and then you find out that the person creating those medicines is bald himself

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OP is a classic example of all these where he is trying to provide suggestions and tips for newbies to achieve great heights while he isn't able to do that himself even after knowing all those things.