Don't be afraid to be more bold with some of life's decisions; often the risk is well worth the potential outcome.
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#12Work is important, but it's not more important than relationships: you can always find another job, but you may never find a comparable partner.
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#13Live your own life, not someone else’s life.
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#14Make fewer posts on social media about how you’re feeling at that moment in time
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#15Start running, and keep running. Oh, and mine some of that newfangled bitcoin stuff!
On the serious side though - It's a lot harder to get yourself in heathy shape in your 40s than in your 20s, and it's a LOT easier to keep a good habit than it is to make one.
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#16Work much harder in high school and college, and spend 10 more years being single.
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#17There are diminishing returns to preparation: focus less on preparation (to include going to prestigious institutions and working for prestigious companies) and more on launching, learning, and iterating. This is true in business and a variety of other fields. As an add on: learn one programming language really well, and resist the urge to spend time learning new ones!
"diminishing returns to preparation" is a great turn of phrase.
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#18Do not fixate on particular goals, but practice broadly scanning for brief opportunities.
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#19There are diminishing returns to preparation: focus less on preparation (to include going to prestigious institutions and working for prestigious companies) and more on launching, learning, and iterating. This is true in business and a variety of other fields. As an add on: learn one programming language really well, and resist the urge to spend time learning new ones!
Why the add on?
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#20Everything ends eventually, so get as much as you can out of it and stop focusing so much on whats next. And don't get hung up on things that do end!