The worst advice I ever got . . .
Sometimes it’s a good idea to take the ‘wisdom’ of others with a pinch of salt, as these highly successful individuals found out the hard way
Tanya Kiang - Director, the Gallery of Photography
Worst advice: “Don’t waste your brains on the arts.”
Tanya Kiang’s father was an astrophysicist and, as she discovered in school, she had a head for the sciences too. “The trouble was that though I knew I could ‘do’ it, I also knew I didn’t absolutely love it,” she says.