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I wonder if there is a way to bring realizations born of other people's experiences home in any meaningful way. I sometimes think about what advice I'd give my 17-year-old self if I had to attend college again, but I admit that the younger me likely wouldn't have listened. It's hard to know what to value in the moment, and I find it's equally hard to absorb what others with the benefit of hindsight tell you. I'd bet…
I would love to hear the regrets of people that have lived a life in such a way that they don't have these modern regrets.
I have met quite a few patients that were undergoing palliative care for their treatments and I heard a lot of the same. One recurring theme I found was that ministers and priests always ended up doubting or renouncing their faith. It was terribly depressing. Whenever I think back it always reminds me to spend more time with my family- they provide the best support in these sort of situations and close families alway…
I wonder if there is a way to bring realizations born of other people's experiences home in any meaningful way. I sometimes think about what advice I'd give my 17-year-old self if I had to attend college again, but I admit that the younger me likely wouldn't have listened. It's hard to know what to value in the moment, and I find it's equally hard to absorb what others with the benefit of hindsight tell you. I'd bet…
What advice would you have given your 17 year old self? (I am 16)
So many of the things you learn, things you'd like your 17 year old self to know, are things that other 17 year olds already know; and vice versa.
All I can really say is to explore the boundaries, do things that stretch yourself, that scare you, to minimize the risk of getting caught in local maxima. Learn to understand how your mind plays tricks on you, tries to stop you from growing. Think of e.g. showing an older grandparent how to use a PC, and of how difficult they find it, how they can't play with it, and learn on their own, because they lack the confidence; and how frustrating it can be when you know it's not actually hard, and all they need to be is open and playful. Keep that in mind when you think something is too hard or that you're not good at it; watch out for your own mind telling you to give up.
> All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence. the problem i find is that your choice is between 150% (employed) or 0% (unemployable).
If you do, you already have your answer.
Interesting - this was submitted nearly four weeks ago, and yet garnered no comments at all, and only one up-vote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570865
1. "How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." -- Marcus Aurelius
2. Work will always be considered a waste of time when you think about it later if you don't enjoy doing it now.
Who thinks those hours debugging + testing X piece of software in language Y about 10 years ago which is now replaced by code Z wasn't a waste of time? It was fun then though.
3. "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now." -- Marcus Aurelius
4. No comments. True friends are amazing human beings to have around. Often better than your own blood.
5. "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. " -- Marcus
We could all use some philosophy, it helps when things go to shit.
No one on their death bed ever said "I wish I'd spent more time alone with my computer." - D. Bunten (creator of M.U.L.E.)