Part 2: http://artofmanliness.com/2013/02/05/dont-waste-your-20s-train-your-brain-for-lasting-success/
Don’t Waste Your Twenties
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Don’t Waste Your Twenties
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#2It would be interesting to have this contrasted with an article written about the same age span 75-150 years ago.
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#3Funny, I've just received my weekly digest and started reading this:
http://www.quora.com/Life-Advice/I-am-turning-27-and-feel-I-...
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#4 At Age 20: I was partying like a madman, it was awesome
At Age 21: Graduated, seeing a great girl, making a little money, enjoying city life
At Age 22: Still having fun, meeting and sleeping with new people
At Age 23: Yup. Same.
At Age 24: New girl, same awesome life
At Age 25: Lots of international travel this year. More great friends made Fun!
At Age 26: More of the same.
You'll never make me regret not taking life seriously, and channelling my awesome early-20s brain-power into socialising and enjoying myself.
tl;dr - sex, drugs and rock'n'roll
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#5I hate these kinds of articles because they can put tremendous pressure on people. There isn't a "right" way to spend your twenties (or thirties, or any decade) and comparing yourself to Einstein and Newton and Kepler like this article does is worse than counterproductive. The only way you should concern yourself with living is to try to be happy every day, whatever that means to you. Listening to pundits showing you charts and graphs and science about how you're wasting your life will just invite stress and pressure.
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#6I often think that if I could talk to myself when I was younger I would change a lot of things in my life but the truth is my younger self would not listen. By definition I made the decisions that I thought at the time were right.
If you don't have regrets you must be one of those alpha males I hear so much about.
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#7I hate these kinds of articles because they can put tremendous pressure on people. There isn't a "right" way to spend your twenties (or thirties, or any decade) and comparing yourself to Einstein and Newton and Kepler like this article does is worse than counterproductive. The only way you should concern yourself with living is to try to be happy every day, whatever that means to you. Listening to pundits showing you…
Of course, but someone have to pay for adds.
Someone presents an opinion and you have someone else who presents his opinion and that is how we start a discussion.
"I work hard to enjoy my twenties"
"I discipline myself to enjoy my twenties"
"Or I do something else that others have came up how to enjoy my twenties"
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#8You shouldn't waste your life, no matter how old you are. But one person's 'wasting' is another person's 'enjoying', so articles like this don't really answer any questions.
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#9Awesome article.
And I suspected that in a long time... And I fear I am too slow to do what I must.
At least, I DID went into some crazy life changing adventures last year, against all "adult" advice. But this year I already started to want to give up and go in a safer path.
I am 25 now.
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#10What you do with your twenties really isn't the significant insight of the article. Though there is some merit in the conclusion:
The twenties are for launching, while the thirties are for building what you launched.
The main point is to recognize the state of your brain at a given age and its resulting effects:
The trick is simply to take advantage of each power in the season it is given
That is applicable regardless of chronological age.