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Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

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Re: Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

#11
It's naive of you to believe you can learn from our past naivety.

You will have to do your own mistakes and learn from them.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde

Re: Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

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One of the most important lesson I have learned is the importance of savings and living a frugal life. Even if you are independently wealthy, living a frugal life can give you a sense of introspection that is hard to understand for most when you are wealthy. Save. Save. Save. They say you learn your biggest life lesson as you stumble through your experiences in life. Poverty is something you would NOT want to experie…

My desire to do this though, causes the problem that I feel like I can't stop working and constantly increasing my savings.

The idea that if I take time off for a while to work on something at a loss, the damage will be too great due to the long time effects of compounding interest etc and the desire to build a prosperous life for my family.

So I think I have the opposite problem. I have a hard time stepping off the gas pedal to pursue things that would probably be more beneficial and enjoyable.

Re: Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

#14

It's naive of you to believe you can learn from our past naivety. You will have to do your own mistakes and learn from them. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde

Perhaps not, but I think I've learned from mistakes faster when people have warned me beforehand about them.

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#16

It's naive of you to believe you can learn from our past naivety. You will have to do your own mistakes and learn from them. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde

If you're a rational person, you can learn a lot from other people's mistakes.

Re: Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

#17

It's naive of you to believe you can learn from our past naivety. You will have to do your own mistakes and learn from them. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde

Sorry but Oscar Wilde was the original troll. If you've spent any time reading him you'd be extremely reluctant to quote him on something like this.

Re: Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

#18
The best advice is: Relax, it's going to be ok.

Everyone takes their own path in life. Listen to others but find your own path.

When you wake up in the morning ask yourself are you happy? If yes keep doing what you are doing.

If no, ask yourself if you could do something to change that, if you can then do that, rinse wash repeat.

If you can't do anything about it be happy anyway.

In short, just be.

Re: Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?

#20

It's naive of you to believe you can learn from our past naivety. You will have to do your own mistakes and learn from them. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde

If you're a rational person, you can learn a lot from other people's mistakes.

Too bad we're not rational
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