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I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

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Re: I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

#31
post #10

> Eating meat is quite clearly immoral. Unless it will be detrimental to your health, eat as little as possible. Carnivorous animals, are they immoral?

I'm sure the concept of self-restraint exists in the animal kingdom among apex predators. Don't hunt too much or otherwise you will destroy your habitat.

This applies to humans too, and not just in the context of eating meat.

Re: I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

#32
post #15

>If you're a man, one of your hardest battles may be not giving in to sexual urges that cause harm to others. What the ...

Author telling on himself here

Totally!

There's this one guy that used to be a regular of tech events where I live. He was building some sort of crappy luma clone.

Anyway, one day out of nowhere he posts on LinkedIn "PSA to girls, when at a conference, we are not reading your name tag, we are looking at your breasts[1]", and then some bizarre argumentation of how if we all used his app this would stop.

He was trying to sound like an "ally". I'm not a girl and it even made me feel uncomfortable, yikes.

1: He used that exact word, mega cringe.

Re: I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

#35
post #10

> Eating meat is quite clearly immoral. Unless it will be detrimental to your health, eat as little as possible. Carnivorous animals, are they immoral?

1) Animals do not (pretend to) have morals, unlike humans

2) Carnivores do not have a choice of food, humans have great alternatives, being omnivores not carnivores.

Re: I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

#37
> curiosity is a superpower

I like this. I’ll take it a step further:

curiosity plus follow-through is a superpower. Lots of people I know are curious… they just never really follow through on it, so they end up average, wasting that superpower. They’re curious in their head, but it stays in their head.

I’m thinking about curiosity in a work sense (“could I build a better widget?”) and in a personal interest sense (“I wonder if taking a dance class / volunteering at a soup kitchen would be fulfilling”).

I’ve learned that the people who tend to excel are the ones who follow that curiosity to completion for something.

Re: I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

#38

> If you're a man, one of your hardest battle may be not giving in to sexual urges that cause harm to others. History is littered with otherwise entirely brilliant men who succeeded at everything but this. It really seems quite difficult for straight men to succeed at this.

Any statistical facts about this? I have a few about other groups but I'm sure you won't like or accept those.

Re: I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

#39
post #8

> One day – probably somewhere between 28 and 38 – you'll wake up and just feel 'off'. A bit sore. A bit tired. That feeling will never leave you. Be grateful for your youth while you have it. This happened when I was 20. I don't know what else to say other than, it fucking sucks.

I wonder how true this really is if you make an reasonable effort to keep yourself in shape. It wasn't until I hit 60 that I felt unquestionably different, and even then it wasn't terrible.

Re: I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

#40
post #3

Congrats, you're half way there to publish your first self-help book!

And then there is the “11 Simple Rules of All Self-Help Books.”

People have mentioned that some of us add our blog links in the comments but here we go https://brajeshwar.com/2024/11-simple-rules-of-all-self-help...

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