What advice do you wish you had received when you were 18? When people are asked this question, some answers are quite common:
- Your choice of a mate is more important than your choice of a career. Don’t marry until you find someone you are very confident is right for you. Don’t be afraid of being alone; being with the wrong person is worse.
- Take care of your body. It’s the only one you'll ever have, and the gradual damage caused by not treating it right is hard to reverse.
- Don't stress about the little things. The importance of everything gets exaggerated right before, during and after it happens, but you'll later realize most of those things weren't worth worrying about.
- Pay less attention to what other people think of you. When close friends tell you you're making a mistake, listen to them. But when you aren't doing what strangers would want you to do, that's usually their problem, not yours.
- Don't waste time. The old adage "time is money" is wrong, since it's easier to convert time into money than the reverse.
A lot of this seems like common sense, but it's common sense that many people don't heed, or just pay lip service to and don't incorporate it into their daily lives.What advice will future you's wish they could've given the current you? If you can figure out the answer to this question, you can substantially improve the rest of your life.
- Your choice of a mate is more important than your choice of a career. Don’t marry until you find someone you are very confident is right for you. Don’t be afraid of being alone; being with the wrong person is worse.
- Take care of your body. It’s the only one you'll ever have, and the gradual damage caused by not treating it right is hard to reverse.
- Don't stress about the little things. The importance of everything gets exaggerated right before, during and after it happens, but you'll later realize most of those things weren't worth worrying about.
- Pay less attention to what other people think of you. When close friends tell you you're making a mistake, listen to them. But when you aren't doing what strangers would want you to do, that's usually their problem, not yours.
- Don't waste time. The old adage "time is money" is wrong, since it's easier to convert time into money than the reverse.
A lot of this seems like common sense, but it's common sense that many people don't heed, or just pay lip service to and don't incorporate it into their daily lives.What advice will future you's wish they could've given the current you? If you can figure out the answer to this question, you can substantially improve the rest of your life.
posted by howtolive.org at
8:08 AM
5 Comments:
I guess 18 years is a crucial time to define your life, but it´s also a time to experiment by your own. My conclusion is that if you had had a good childhood you will have a good adult life. But I think life is lerning things, if you failed in something, then you corrected it and as a consecuence you improved yourself.
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Maria, at 5:48 PM
I would have liked to have been told, "Meet as many different kinds of people as you can, not just people already like yourself."
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Caldwell, at 7:15 PM
This is a great blog.
I think the advice is great. If this is common sense then it is certainly not very common.
But the advice is so sensible and uncontroversial that it is suprising that this would indeed improve life substantially.
Is this really what people have come up with? Did you find this in a study? Or is this your conjecture of what people would say?
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Anonymous, at 8:05 PM
Take the moment. I look forward to the future, I desire my time alone. But the opportunity to be with family and friends is present. Learning to enjoy and relish it.
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David Mackey, at 10:18 PM
> Is this really what people have come up with? Did you find this in a study? Or is this your conjecture of what people would say?
This is what I've gathered by asking people this question. I'm not familiar with any other research, although there must be some. If not, I think it would make a great book idea - any aspiring authors out there?
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howtolive.org, at 12:46 PM
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