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Yet a third way is that the younger you are, the greater the percentage of your lived life is represented by a year. When you are 5, a year represents a full 2
by bena 6y ago
Yet a third way is that the younger you are, the greater the percentage of your lived life is represented by a year.
When you are 5, a year represents a full 20% of your life. (And even more of the amount of life you are capable of fully aware of).
When you are 20, a year is 5% of your life.
When you are 50, it's 2%.
Imagine asking someone to commit to what is effectively seen as 25% of their life to a project. But that's what we do when we tell teenagers to start thinking about college.
- munk-a 6y agoThat's a good insight but I think you're underselling things - most folks don't really have experiences of any sort from their <3 years. I think it's also pretty common for teens to consider themselves five or so years prior to be different people due to how fast you're maturing. When you're making a decision to choose which college to go to I think it's fair to view that as deciding what to do with the next third of your life from a teenager's perspective.