But I'm older now, and wiser, too. Wiser means you realize you are not as smart as you used to think you were. It also means you've lost the reasoning that made you feel that it was cheating to be helped. .....
Don't worry about being helped. Your pictures will be your pictures. They won't suffer by your heeding advice. And they probably will look different than what the other guys got anyway.
From "It's Not about the F-stop". Jay Maisel