It makes sense as in your meaning can be understood. However, maybe it would be clearer if you worded it like this: "Be mindful of distracting words or people, they can be misleading and sway your thoughts." Hope I helped :)

Hi there Emarbe, I think your question here is really about the difference in use and meaning of 'misled', 'mistaken' & 'misguided'... The difference is that you can be misled - in other words someone or something (in this case the distractors or false friends) is doing something to you. Your error is because of influence of this other person or thing. But when you are mistaken you are just wrong, the mistake is made by you - in other words this could be because you have been influenced by another person or thing, or it may just be your own error with no outside influence. It could be a deep misunderstanding of philosophy or logic, but generally we use it for simple mistakes. Misguided also means being wrong, but we tend to use it for much deeper misunderstandings based on bad judgement or lack of logic. Sometimes (but not always!) we use this to suggest that the person concerned is not at fault, and so therefore it can mean that we imply that there has been some outside influence. Therefore, you cannot use 'mistaken BY them' Some examples: 1. Mind some distractors/ false friends, they can be misleading, you can be misled BY them or Mind some distractors/false friends, they can be misleading, and YOU can make a mistake. 2. I thought I left my keys here but I was mistaken. 3. He was not a bad person, he was simply misguided. Hope this helps. Chris