What advice would you give your younger self?
To my younger self.
Funny enough, my future self will probably say the same to my current self. I may need to think about what my future self would tell my current self.
Funny enough, my future self will probably say the same to my current self. I may need to think about what my future self would tell my current self.
1. Learn to learn
You would not know what skills will be relevant in the future, but if you build the ability to learn anything, you will thrive.
Learn how to read faster and memorize things like names, stories, slide decks. Learn how to type faster.
2. Journal daily
3. Go deep
Don’t follow for the hype. Reading a book or taking a course doesn’t make you an expert. Read about the history of the field, how it came about, why is it needed. Go deep!
If you admire a mentor or an author, go deep and read all their works.
Don’t be shallow!
4. Consume to produce
By producing, you are an active learner. You are contributing to the world.
5. Be your future self
6. Start building a second brain
7. Think in terms of experiments and projects
You want to have many side projects. You want to have a list of experiments you want to test and create projects to test them. Projects are good to learn about managing time and resources. As you complete small projects, you build confidence. Building bias for action is the best thing you will do for yourself.
Traveling is both an experiment and a project. Go travel the world, and write about it.
8. Read a lot
Think Fast and Slow, Black Swan, Antifragility, The 10X Rule, Man's Search for Meaning, Built to Sell, Thinking in Systems, Essentialism, Made to Stick, and more.
9. Dream big
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ― Napoleon Hill
“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” ― Robert Brault
10. Do that father-son trip now
Go on a road trip with dad. Have that trip that you always wanted with dad. He will not be around for long.
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