I don't think this is good advice at all and reeks of survivorship bias. I used to live my life like this, very intentionally. I married a woman on our first da

I don't think this is good advice at all and reeks of survivorship bias. I used to live my life like this, very intentionally. I married a woman on our first date. I moved across the country for love. I spent much of my early 20s traveling and writing, dirt poor basically rubber tramping it like I was Neal Cassady, getting by on charm and storytelling. I joined the Army during wartime for an essentially similar reason to why Oliver Stone did, and yeah, it clearly worked out for him but what about all his platoon-mates who were killed or permanently damaged? Granted, interesting stories don't have to be inherently dangerous or self-destructive, but unfortunately dangerous and self-destructive does actually make for great stories. I can probably tell better stories than this guy, but I'm kind of lucky to be alive. A whole lot of people I was friends with back in the day are dead, in jail, homeless, junkies, and that doesn't work out so well once you hit your 40s and recovery gets more and more impossible. The best advice I can give young people is do something sufficiently interesting that you don't go crazy and throw away your life someday when you have a midlife crisis, but seriously study up on how compound interest works and do the things, no how matter how boring they are, that are going to take care of you when you're 70.