Key point: Instead of providing a pat answer or suggested solution, the best advice encourages deeper thinking by sharing a framework for analysis and by sharing data to use with the framework.

"free advice is often worth as much as you pay for it"... indeed if you get advice together with the context and thought framework description that lead to the advice, you often get more yield out of the latter. It makes you apply such framework for other problems, or else, it shows that the advisor did not really have the correct mental model of your particular problem.