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Ask HN: If you could go back in time, what would you tell your 20 year old self?
What things do you see differently now?
- DumbUser123 8y agoWear a condom, you ah*le!
- HNLurker2 8y agoElaborate sir. I would become a wizard anyway
- ziddoap 8y agoDon't follow your biggest passion for work, it just kills the passion. Follow your 2nd biggest passion, so that you enjoy your work but you still have something to enjoy when you aren't working.
- k4ch0w 8y agoStop hanging out with people who you know aren't good for you. Start believing in yourself more and more. Remember no one is watching you because they are too busy with themselves.
- HNLurker2 8y ago>Stop hanging out with people who you know aren't good for you. How does one recognize them? >Start believing in yourself more and more. I can't because of Dunning-Kruger
- altairiumblue 8y agoWhat do I see differently - just about anything. What would I tell myself? I wouldn't bother at all. Any advice that I can tell to my younger self was probably also available at the time. And I was really bad at listening to it. Sometimes you have to earn your own experience - other people's advice only goes so far.
- lugg 8y agoBitcoin goes to 19665 before crashing.
- muzani 8y agoAmazon becomes a trillion dollar company. Google and Apple come close.
- nilskidoo 8y agoLove and trust are mass hallucinations.
- gamechangr 8y agoIn what sense?
- lm28469 8y agoWhat might be detrimental is expecting unconditional and eternal love/trust from someone. If you enter the game with realistic expectations it's a smooth sail.
- nilskidoo 8y agoWanna buy a bridge?
- Odenwaelder 8y agoThe lottery numbers.
- muzani 8y agoWake up at 4 or 5 AM. Every preventable bad thing in your life happens because of lack of sleep. Waking up early makes you go to bed early.
- erklik 8y agoDoes it? I have to wake up early and unfortunately, still go to sleep very late. Granted, its only been a week since I have needed to do that so may adjust over time but I just can't sleep at 9/10.
- muzani 8y agoI think it's how you look at it. I'm more like "I can play games and look at Facebook at 4 AM so I'll go to bed now". If you have to wake up early, you'll still get the late night internal struggles plus deal with being overtired.
- perilunar 8y agoI would tell him how I was able to go back in time. It would revolutionize physics. As to life advice, there's no point — you can't tell 20 year olds anything.
- SlipperySlope 8y agoAt age 68, I learned the true meaning of "a pain in the ass".
- mbrock 8y agoIf it seems like you can get by in university without too much effort, maybe consider that you’ll be happier if you switch up your attitude, seek out professors and older students to work with, or maybe even change your major to something that would get you in a more inspired mood perhaps because it’s less familiar. Slacking off and having it easy isn’t really all that great for you.
- tmaly 8y agoNot joking, I would give myself the winning numbers of a very large Powerball jackpot along with the date associated with those numbers.
- arandr0x 8y agoI like you and you're alive for a reason.