What's the best advice you can give to a 22 year old?
Ask better questions. Because questions are places in the mind where answers fit.
Don’t ask for advice. From a fellow 22 year old.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk at all.
Your life starts in your thirties. Twenties do not bring men much fun whether you improve yourself or not. They are a preparation for the future. Even if you get a great career/job title, nobody will respect you pour care about your opinion. Women should not be chased.
Seek out diversity. Diversity of people, ideas, opinions, etc.
1. Don't listen to people who say "Don't worry, you have so much time!". Urgency towards consistent action is incredibly important 2. Don't think about stepping stones, figure out what you obsess over & do the most direct thing 3. Be grateful for life & don't be around cynicism.
1. Prioritize relationships (esp. friends) above all 2. Not all goods are commensurable 3. Prioritize exploration (intellectual, career, residence) above all
Find out where the edges are. They are further out than you believe.
Work hard. Have fun... and make sure you don't marry until you're 30 ;)
Don't optimize for salary, optimize for learning curve.
1. Time is _the_ currency, spend intentionally 2. Jobs' quote is actually true: "Everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people who were no smarter than you." 3. Have fun, otherwise what's the point
https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1377661970178973696 “My best career advice: at every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it's neither, quit.” I focused on “learn” my first years in tech: Google Summer of Code, NBA internship, etc.
Don’t invest hours of your life trying to build your online identity on any web2 platforms.
Dont be so quick to conform to what the world wants you to do. Keep pushing to be the best version of yourself
Spend more time finding out what it is you really enjoy in life and doing that.
Better to rely on habits than looking for motivation or inspiration. At this age, focus on building good habits that will carry you for the rest of your life.
Compound - Relationships Skills Interest Habits At that age 2 years feels like eternity; thats the only hurdle
Tight-knit groups of high performers accomplish massive things in this world; build your tribe. And don't be afraid to ask them for help. More here, if helpful: https://notes.lauraevans.io/Structure+Notes/%C2%A7+30+Things+I've+Learned+in+30+Years
in the darkest moments, the best (but hardest) thing you can do is to close your eyes, breathe, observe your thoughts and embrace your emotions.
Always be on look out for opportunities that don't convert immediately but creates a huge leverage for you long term. The way to find these is by doing 2 things: 1. Find people doing amazing things. 2. Find amazing problems that need solving.
- workout and meditate every day - discipline is the most important - choose your circle carefully. - sleep is important
Look at the emerging trends and stick to them. Missed a lot of opportunities due to this.
lift weights and go to therapy. after uni you’ll need to be intentional and proactive if you want to have a meaningful social network. it’s never too late; you’re going to be old anyway. if a change doesn’t kill you quickly then it’s something you’ll learn to live with instead.
https://mirror.xyz/adeets.eth/15pss32xS4fwPOUl3YTwGTsHh7jkPJsHS_LDyh1Z5xs wrote this after an exceptionally hard summer, would suggest a 22 year old to read this
Remember to give yourself some GRACE. Be kind to yourself, treat yourself like you would treat your best friend.
Don’t ask or to listen to advice. Data points from other people’s lives are not important for you.
20s is for risk taking. I left my university town in England and worked at US tech startups in the Bay Area. I went back to Europe when I was 30 for work life balance. Take risks, travel. Be a workaholic. Accept you’ll burn out. I burned out at age 28/29 from working too much.
Create: articulate a vision, objectively assess current reality, take action to go from current reality to vision, always reassessing all 3 elements. Be tireless in your efforts to learn, be courageous in your efforts to build. Don’t limit your own horizon.
Also: life will get hard sometimes but it won’t always be that way - don’t give up hope in yourself
If you survey enough people, all the advice you receive will cancel out to zero. Stole this one but always useful to keep in the back of your mind
Treat life like a set infinitely fun experiments, continuously A/B testing, with the serendipitous nature of sporadically choosing the test that failed.
if it was me at 22 it'd be: instead of spending lots of energy deciding what to do with your life try lots of different stuff and pay close attention to what you like and dislike and why. basically, prioritize learning.
Your life is a broad video game skill tree Three skills are curiosity, energy and durability Optimize for allocating skill points into these Optimize for maximum total skill points
sleep, sport, diet, social bonds, reading, listening (to books) — up negativity, toxicity, time drains, alcohol, sugar, salt — down
Ask people to tell you stories of when they’ve experienced something similar. Great tool for filtering advice