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This list is based off things I've learned and things I've done. Consider it life advice for an 18-year-old. - Embrace a healthy lifestyle now. It's much easie

This list is based off things I've learned and things I've done. Consider it life advice for an 18-year-old. - Embrace a healthy lifestyle now. It's much easier to stay in shape than it is to get in shape. - Embrace life-long learning. You're 18. You might be going to college. Don't think you're going to learn all you'll ever need to know in your field after going to college. - Understand that experience is often the best teacher. - Understand it's okay to make mistakes. Problems arise when you repeatedly make the same mistakes. - Pay yourself first (retirement savings). At least 5%. Yes, retirement seems forever away but it's important to get saving now. - Try as much as possible to own things. It's nice to have things that you're not paying to keep. - Don't worry about what everybody else is doing. You need to discover who you are and find your own path. Once you've figured that out, you can tailor this advice to help you on your path - and part of tailoring is discarding.

Marius_Manola 2y ago
The fourth one hit really hard because we live in a world where making mistakes has been normalised to an extreme extent, where we stop being aware that we even made a mistake. And I feel that's the case with me (at least that's what my tennis coach tells me, and I kind of see that in the rest of my life) Fortunately I don't have a problem with not making mistakes, I made a great deal of them (and many more to come) as I have been trying various online ventures for 7 years now (from youtube and freelancing to startups). And in the end some of those ended up working so well I make more than most of my school teachers do per month. Finally, I wish I knew how not to care about what others think of me. I'm trying to find a way not to worry about it, but I'm still trying to figure it out. I think this will go away with age, as it is with most bad experiences we have in life; the cure to those experiences is to relive them again and again and realise it's not as bad as we make it up in our own heads.
- taylodl 2y ago
  It certainly sounds like you "understand that experience is often the best teacher"! As far as not caring what others think of you - I believe it comes with age. As social animals I believe we evolved to care a lot about the feedback from others while growing up since that helped us get along and survive in our tribe/clan. As we get older, we're the ones providing that feedback. Plus, survivorship bias makes us think our way must be right. That's why old people get cantankerous.

Marius_Manola 2y ago

The fourth one hit really hard because we live in a world where making mistakes has been normalised to an extreme extent, where we stop being aware that we even made a mistake. And I feel that's the case with me (at least that's what my tennis coach tells me, and I kind of see that in the rest of my life) Fortunately I don't have a problem with not making mistakes, I made a great deal of them (and many more to come) as I have been trying various online ventures for 7 years now (from youtube and freelancing to startups). And in the end some of those ended up working so well I make more than most of my school teachers do per month. Finally, I wish I knew how not to care about what others think of me. I'm trying to find a way not to worry about it, but I'm still trying to figure it out. I think this will go away with age, as it is with most bad experiences we have in life; the cure to those experiences is to relive them again and again and realise it's not as bad as we make it up in our own heads.

taylodl 2y ago
It certainly sounds like you "understand that experience is often the best teacher"! As far as not caring what others think of you - I believe it comes with age. As social animals I believe we evolved to care a lot about the feedback from others while growing up since that helped us get along and survive in our tribe/clan. As we get older, we're the ones providing that feedback. Plus, survivorship bias makes us think our way must be right. That's why old people get cantankerous.