Everything should be excellent—start making small changes once a month so they normalize and wake up a decade later formidable and attractive.
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#22Don't be afraid to quit.
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#23You are going to die. You have nothing to lose. Follow your heart.
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#24Involve other people in your major life decisions. Ask them for advice even if you don't feel you need it. At the very least it will bring you closer.
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#25Do your own thing. Don't try to please others. Be kind. Put money in the bank every paycheck. Exercise. Tell those that you love that you do.
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#26Big life changes (like marriage, having kids) will change your life, and it's OK that your priorities won't be the same as they were before.
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#27There's plenty of time because what you do is far more important than how (or how quickly) you do something.
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#28“The sentence sending time machine works.”
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#29There 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?
Second this, learning multiple languages is generally seen as a good thing, opening your mind to different ways of solving problems, no?
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#30You aren't busy. You just feel busy. Find time to do interesting things, because once you have kids you'll find out what being busy actually means.