Any book worth reading is worth reading slowly.
And more than once.
Things I Should Have Known at 20
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#72Any book worth reading is worth reading slowly.
What's the slowest book you've read?
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#73After item 2, I wanted to upvote, but I forced myself to be patient. By item 16, I had to stop and come upvote it. It's about a 90% match for what I wish I could go back and tell my 20 year old self. At least I'm doing most of it now.
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#74Point 20 is wrong.
You'll find that everybody is 'broken' in their own special ways. There really isn't any such thing as someone that isn't broken (unless you're talking about serious mental trauma as the definition of "broken"). We all accumulate baggage over a lifetime, and from each relationship; we all have weird quirks and strange behaviors and eccentricities of varying degrees, and weird reactions to things we do or don't like, and so on.
Find someone whose 'broken' qualities are acceptable to you (not a deal breaker), or even adorable if you're so lucky.
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#75The only way to succeed in life is to fail. This article reads like it is a definite list of commands and rules to abide by for a great life forgoing the fact that no two lives are the same. There are a few good tid-bits of info in this article, but if there is one thing in life you should know it's you will fail and thinking that learning from the mistakes of others will safeguard you from failure is a sure fire way…
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#76I am 36 and admit that 19 out of 20 of this suits me.
Disagree with #4. I think it leads to waste of time.
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#77"Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true." This is the very opposite of how I've been trying to live my life. I do not know what to think of that.
That's interesting. What do you mean? How have you been trying to live your life?
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#78#792: ideas are not that valuable
#793: a modest product today, is better than a perfect product next year
#794: incorporating, lawyers, accountants, are not that important, build something and then worry about that
#795: find a pin, and knock it down; if you never knock down that first pin, you're never going to knock the rest down
#796: force yourself to get very good at selling; selling yourself, selling your vision, selling your product, etc.
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#79The list is all phrased as commands. I can't stand that. There is no one way through life, and I wish people didn't act like just because it worked for them it will work for everyone. Find people that are cooler than you and try to be even cooler than them seems like a particularly terrible command to give in general. So many of the people I admire the most just don't care so much about image. And I've met too many p…
I get easily annoyed by arrogant style, but this seems okay to me.
He's really just trying to share what he's learned and it seems very honest.
It's not like "you should follow me on Twitter" at all.
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#80I thought this was going to be BS, as I do all numbered lists [1], but it's actually pretty good. Here's a TLDR, but the elaborations on each point are worth reading: 1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. 2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. 3. Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention. 4. Connect with everyone, all the time. 5. Don’t waste time being shy. 6. If you feel we…
> 1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. No it doesn't. Quite the opposite. While the idea that less educated are easier to manipulate is true the item on the list says expresses a different idea. > 2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. You can only educate yourself. However institutions can help a lot. As for outdated curriculum: guess how old Newtonian physics and calculus is. Now think how many…
Why not? What makes it bullshit?