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This is a great essay from pg ("What you'll wish you'd known"): http://paulgraham.com/hs.html http://paulgraham.com/hs.html I recommend this to anyone in high school or college who is looking for good heuristics for life direction. My "elevator pitch" answer (much included in pg essays) is: a) Find interesting people you like to be around. b) Find interesting and hard problems to work on. c) Find a place you want to live. Looking at these heuristics often makes choices a lot easier.