Unique to my psychology, but I would have prioritized finding my wife a lot more aggressively than I did. When I was a teenager, I realized that since I was al

Unique to my psychology, but I would have prioritized finding my wife a lot more aggressively than I did. When I was a teenager, I realized that since I was already a pretty smart and hardworking person, I was probably going to do alright in my career once it got going no matter how long it took to get there. The real risk I ran in terms of life satisfaction was ending up as one of those 80 hour a week workaholics who never carved out enough time to meet enough women to finally find the one I wanted to marry. That was a very depressing thought, so I decided early on that I would only start taking my career seriously after I got married. Until then I'd be happy with keeping a standard 9 to 5, not trying to stand out too much in that arena, and not saving a whole lot of money (which was honestly more of a psychological thing for me than an actual reality, it turns out grabbing coffee with friends 3 times a week isn't actually that expensive). Again, I eventually got there, but only around age 24, when I had it in me to start doing that like around age 17 or so.