Generic views/ advice about investing is not going to help you in your financial well being …

Some months ago, I read this letter which discussed whether one should follow advice that appeared in the media. The answer is the same whether the advice is about investment or medicine. Suppose you read an article written by a doctor which says that you should exercise every day. Surely, it is advice that should be followed. However, suppose the article also says that one should eat a 40mg tablet of XYZ medicine every day. Do we follow that advice too? Clearly not.
In fact, it is highly unlikely that a doctor would write an article with such specific advice. It is self-evident why we feel such advice is wrong–the person writing the article cannot know a reader specific health issues. For a large number of readers, the advice must necessarily not to be suitable. And readers know it–they know that specific medical advice can only be given by knowing them personally.
Surprisingly, we seem to be under no such inhibition when we read advice about money or investing. Over the last month, there was a feverish buildup of expectations that as soon as the US Federal Reserve hikes rates, all hell will break lose in everyone investments. The panic was well-reflected in online discussions of Indian investors. Surely, everyone should sell their investments in time for the post-Fed collapse, the logic went.
There is no way such advice can be meaningful without knowing what your particular circumstances are.