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I don’t want it to sound bad, but I’m sure it will sound like that. You are 21 years old. Unless you are not telling us something, you just started living. You

by tucaz 5y ago

I don’t want it to sound bad, but I’m sure it will sound like that. You are 21 years old. Unless you are not telling us something, you just started living. You haven’t learned anything about anything. What kind of meaningful work do you expect to complete? If you truly want to make a difference and have a purpose, wouldn’t it make sense for you to learn something about the world or the people in it? I might be gatekeeping it and you might be a special kind of person but statistically that is unlikely and your desire seem to come from all the motivation stuff that people put out there.

junon 5y ago
Just chiming in, I remember people telling me this when I was 21 and thinking "I know things, these people are just talking down to me." Almost a decade later, I can absolutely confirm, I knew almost nothing about the world at 21. This is great advice. You need to fail and learn lessons. Your early 20's are the opportune time to fuck up because you get a lot of free passes. Those free passes start to run out as you get older. Use them, because they're non-transferable
- tucaz 5y ago
  I was once 21 and I had the same thinking as you did and as OP does. I thought I knew better than these people telling me I knew nothing and it turns out… I was wrong. That’s the great thing about getting older and hopefully wiser. You start to understand you know nothing and use that to learn from people who know more.
  - baremetal 5y ago
    >That’s the great thing about getting older and hopefully wiser. You start to understand you know nothing and use that to learn from people who know more. When people ask me how do i know the things i know, i tell them "i listened to people who knew". It brings to mind a quote or two: "We spend the first two years learning to talk, and the rest of our lives learning to listen" "When i was 14 i thought my father knew nothing. at 21 i thought, the old man sure has learned a lot in 7 years."

by tucaz 5y ago

junon 5y ago

Just chiming in, I remember people telling me this when I was 21 and thinking "I know things, these people are just talking down to me." Almost a decade later, I can absolutely confirm, I knew almost nothing about the world at 21. This is great advice. You need to fail and learn lessons. Your early 20's are the opportune time to fuck up because you get a lot of free passes. Those free passes start to run out as you get older. Use them, because they're non-transferable

tucaz 5y ago
I was once 21 and I had the same thinking as you did and as OP does. I thought I knew better than these people telling me I knew nothing and it turns out… I was wrong. That’s the great thing about getting older and hopefully wiser. You start to understand you know nothing and use that to learn from people who know more.
- baremetal 5y ago
  >That’s the great thing about getting older and hopefully wiser. You start to understand you know nothing and use that to learn from people who know more. When people ask me how do i know the things i know, i tell them "i listened to people who knew". It brings to mind a quote or two: "We spend the first two years learning to talk, and the rest of our lives learning to listen" "When i was 14 i thought my father knew nothing. at 21 i thought, the old man sure has learned a lot in 7 years."