Mindset, lifestyle, lessons you’ve learned the hard way
No ”lottery ticket numbers” or ”buy bitcoin” please.
Ask HN: What would you tell your younger self 10 years ago?
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Re: Ask HN: What would you tell your younger self 10 years ago?
#21. He wouldn't have listened.
2. No...”buy bitcoin” please. 3. He should listen, try completely new things, evaluate them, and aim to make lots of fresh mistakes.
4. But his biggest mistake was that he was not listening. He was waiting for his own heroism, his own tools to become his proven answer to problems that could have more easily been solved using other tools. He was in his own way.
5. In the meantime he should take better care of himself, or expect surprising moments of self-centeredness to break out when least desired. He shouldn't wait for others to defer to his own ideas or opinions so much.
Hurts to write all this, but I appreciate the exercise.
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#4don't take that "startup" job; stick with the bigger companies
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#5Beware of abusive relationships.
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#6You are bad at resolving conflicts. You think you aren't.
This will cost you jobs, friends, and relationships before you figure it out.
Re: Ask HN: What would you tell your younger self 10 years ago?
#71) You failed your own business.
That's ok, try again as soon as you can. Don't feel like you can't do it or that you need contracting or a perm job or better contacts, you can do it.
2) You may not realise it but you're going through depression. You will never go to a therapist, for sure, but you can at least read on cognitive behavioural therapy and try to get your shit together.
3) Read about philosophy, the same philosophy you bullshitted through in high school. Philosophy will give you tools to understand more and to function better. Read on stoicism and on nihilism.
4) Everything will be fine. And if it doesn't, it doesn't matter.
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#91.Curate your relationships more harshly.
2.Ready meals are better than no meals.
3.It is not your responsibility to rescure people from situations they put themselves in because they want to be rescued.
4.You don't have to pay your dues by working shit low wage dead end jobs for no reason - just apply for what you actually want to do.
5.Job stability is an illusion.
6.Be wary of people who encroach on your goals and achievements.
7.You are not a side character or an audience, and your life is not a stage for other people to trample across.
8.Wash your damn hands and don't hang out in enclosed spaces with people with contageous illnesses.
9.Buy non-synthetic clothes only.
Re: Ask HN: What would you tell your younger self 10 years ago?
#10It's good to trust people, trusting people will continue to enrich your life.
It's not good to ignore those inner warnings about trusting particular people. That spidey sense is dead on correct every time.