What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?
What advice would you tell yourself ten years ago?
You don’t get to choose whether to care about athleticism, appearance, social graces, etc. They aren’t decorative garnishes. They’re fundamental to being accepted and desired by the people around you. You may not think that’s important, but your lizard brain does, and the hellscape it’ll build for you when you cross it is unimaginable. A little nausea or shortness of breath is nothing. Play a damn sport.
Don’t even think about joining those couple startups as early employee, go straight to FAANG, work on amazing tech and gain your financial freedom.
None. That person had plenty of available advice that he didn't listen to. What he needed was better role models and people to emulate, not advice.
Start lifting weights and exercising.
Note this is not dependent on some historical events happening like Apple stock or bitcoin. If you aren’t into fitness now I highly recommend you get into it.
Do a few small things daily, consistently, 365 days a year, for the next decade. E.g., learning three new words/phrases in a foreign language per day takes about 5 minutes yet adds up to over 10,000 in a decade - essentially the number it takes to pass a C1 exam.
This kind of slow steady progress is useful for virtually anything: learn foreign alphabets one letter a day, read the encyclopedia one entry a day, etc.
Don't get involved with web development.
I am in my late twenties. All the other advice seems to come from people my age. I would also have similiar advice:
- Focus on your relationships, they take work. Manage your input and your expectations.
- There are probably easier ways to make money. It's okay to take an easy route and improve from there. Time is valuable and interests compound.
- Which inner desires are your goals feeding into. Is there an easier way to get there?
This thread is full of advice like this and there were probably similar threads 10 years ago. Have we listened? I would not have. I learned it the hard way and now believe in it.
A better question probably would be: What advice would your future self give you in ten years?
For me it would probably be around health. Maybe family and friends.
Pay attention to your health, don't eat junk food, get more sleep.
Get diagnosed for adult ADHD.
You can do that job, and you can be good at it. But it would take you a lot less time to get good at it and you’ll do a lot less damage in the interim if you hired an executive coach now.
Value your time and health more. Give time to your family (kids)
Practice / learn
Don’t get angry.
Start meditating sooner
You will be alive in 10 years!
Ask yourself what do you want/like and why.
Don't complete your master's degree
Do not ask clickbait questions?
Buy bitcoin. Sell 10% stake each year (dollar cost averaging per day) starting 2015.
Also get ripped sooner.