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Therapy - learn how you think, learn where your blind spots, implicit assumptions, and tendencies are. Learn this before you learn you need it. Exercise - help

Therapy - learn how you think, learn where your blind spots, implicit assumptions, and tendencies are. Learn this before you learn you need it. Exercise - helps you think better, helps you feel better, helps you emotionally. Find something you like doing - I do power lifting and yoga - and get in the habit of doing it daily. Explore - odds are your career isn’t really going to take off until your late 20s at the earliest, because frankly until then you’re just not going to be very good. Spend the time to learn everything you can from everyone you can and try anything you can - experience now pays dividends later. Accept that you’re young and inexperienced, be humble, don’t pretend you know what you’re doing when you don’t, and you’ll come out of this decade miles ahead of where you start. Oh, and - you’ve got 60 years ahead of you, statistically speaking. Probably no more, probably no less. Plan accordingly.

dougmwne 5y ago
I've seen a lot of extremely smart people in their early 20's. Young people can easily be as good as older people. The big difference is that respect, pay and responsibilities are hoarded at the top and not offered to juniors.
kasperni 5y ago
> I do power lifting and yoga This is probably the last two kinds of sports I would combine. Especially if you are serious about any of them. You could really hurt your back down the line. Generally powerlifters shouldn't do yoga [1]. Because in powerlifting you really want to stiffen your back so it can handle heavy weights. In yoga you are trying to "unstiffen" your spine so you can get into those flexible positions. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFoYpaHJXMo&t=740s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFoYpaHJXMo&t=740s
- adingus 5y ago
  As someone who can only deadlift moderate weight (405lbs) I can tell this advice is almost completely wrong for anyone except maybe a record level lifter. This sounds like someone from the 1950s saying muscular people are "muscle-bound" and can't be flexible.

dougmwne 5y ago

I've seen a lot of extremely smart people in their early 20's. Young people can easily be as good as older people. The big difference is that respect, pay and responsibilities are hoarded at the top and not offered to juniors.

kasperni 5y ago

> I do power lifting and yoga This is probably the last two kinds of sports I would combine. Especially if you are serious about any of them. You could really hurt your back down the line. Generally powerlifters shouldn't do yoga [1]. Because in powerlifting you really want to stiffen your back so it can handle heavy weights. In yoga you are trying to "unstiffen" your spine so you can get into those flexible positions. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFoYpaHJXMo&t=740s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFoYpaHJXMo&t=740s

adingus 5y ago
As someone who can only deadlift moderate weight (405lbs) I can tell this advice is almost completely wrong for anyone except maybe a record level lifter. This sounds like someone from the 1950s saying muscular people are "muscle-bound" and can't be flexible.