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Don’t go to university, unless you really want to work in engineering or teaching.
You’ll be saddled with student debt and your job prospects will be worse than if you decided to start flipping burgers or stacking shelves at 18.
Get a vasectomy
This will be great for my daughter, thank you
Maybe there are gift cards
Protect your privacy
There are two main scenarios: Preventative advice, and Advice when something has happened. For me as a teenager, i struggled with advice after something had gone wrong. I’m reading the lists below and wondering how I might have wanted to hear it
Open a free brokerage account now and buy an index fund. Only index funds and even if it is $20 or $4 a month keep investing in index funds. Fidelity has several with no fees. Google what an index fund is. Don’t ever gamble on a regular stock, it’s basically gambling and not worth it.
I thought I was too poor for the “stock market” but I was an idiot and now I’m a much older still-broke idiot who is never going to get to retire.
Also start saving for retirement now. Open a Roth IRA and fill it with index funds.
I know this sounds ridiculous and stupid and not fun but seriously preparing for your financial future is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself. I wish I had.
Don’t be me kids.
99% of what sucks now won’t bother you later in life.
Just the collapse of society and climate change.
True, but that’s only two of exactly two hundred recognized problems in our time. That’s why I left that last percentage open.
read more books and brush your teeth
Learn to say no when something or someone doesn’t jive with you. Be able to say no even if someone threatens the friendship or relationship or whatever because if they talk like that, they are manipulating you and its a strong indicator they have more power in the relatiinship which they are abusing to take advantage of you.
Speak up, make some noise. The squeaky wheel is always the one that gets the grease or at least whatever grease there is to be gotten.
- Workout. Doesn’t have to be a lot but be consistent
- No matter what everyone says, keep on learning.
- Try to be in contact with your close friends
- Don’t compare yourself to someone else. There will always be someone better.
- Develop some hobbies which doesn’t involve a mobile phone or other people
- Read books. Even two books a year is great.
- Don’t do drugs or smoke. It’s not worth it.
Don’t do drugs or smoke. It’s not worth it.
Fully agree abiut nitocine and tobacco.
Hard disagree about a lot of other drugs. I’m not encouraging their use, but harm reduction is a big deal, it saves lives.
If you’re gonna take drugs, do your research ahead of time, and please test your drugs. If your friends are gonna take drugs, be the friend that makes sure they get their drugs tested too. Don’t just take your dealer’s word for it if they say their stuff was tested - even if they’re telling the truth, building the habit to always test, no matter what, is gonna rub off on other folks to do the same. And know what narcan is and try to have some around.
tripsafe.org and erowid.org are excellent resources for this.
I agree with practicing harm reduction if you’re going to do drugs, but it’s still not worth it imo. I spent much of my twenties experimenting with all kinds of drugs and experienced a lot because of them. From party drugs to wild psychedelic experiences, none of it was actually worth a damn. With psychedelics especially it can feel profound and spiritual at the time, but it’s really not. It’s just your brain chemistry reacting to the drugs. Nothing special or worthwhile about it and you’re better off going outside and experiencing real things and forming relationships with people.
I’m not encouraging their use, but harm reduction is a big deal, it saves lives
Can you tell me which kind of drugs are these? I promise i’m not a fed :P
PS: I am excluding medical marijuana. I know they are useful in certain scenarios.
Expanding on your first point, be aware of the difference between “workout” and “work out”.
“Workout” is a noun. “Work out” is a verb. You can tell because you can conjugate the verb without having to split it apart.
“He works out”, and not “He workouts” or “He worksout”. That’s how you know it needs a space.
You can tell the one without a space is a noun because you can pluralize it. “Arm workouts for women”.
As a bonus: “Every day” means “each and every day”. “Everyday” means “typical”, like for clothing.
You could have “everyday clothes”. But you don’t “work out everyday” – you work out every day.
It’s funny when someone says “i workout everyday” thinking they wrote three words, yet they made three spelling/grammar mistakes. Even monolingual English speakers make these kinds of mistakes.
I know the difference instinctively but i think i may have written it wrong in many places. “I’ll add this exercise to my workout” vs “We should work out more”.
Thanks for the detailed explanation.
It’s even trickier with autocorrect. Especially if it’s one of the “smart” ones that remembers the words you use. Make the mistake once and you’re doomed!
The workout part 😅
Edit: okay, I’ll man up
Don’t too much about grades or college admissions. It’s really not worth it, especially with how it’s pushed as the only important thing. Make sure you pass all your classes but don’t worry about getting all A’s or getting into the ivy leagues
Don’t take out student loans. Ever. It’s a scam
Community college rocks. Don’t be afraid to.go, but it’s not a silver bullet
Read books. Especially the ones that they’re banning and pulling from libraries. Get a good eBook reader for your phone, use Anna’s archive.
Self education is more useful than school, make sure to do a lot of it. Teach yourself stuff, learn skills
Learn how to tell which adults are full of crap and which ones are worth listening to
Don’t let the fascists take away your rights, including whatever “protect the children” moral panic is going on, that’s just a scam to control you
Speaking of scams to control you, question the religion you were raised in
Learn the signs of abusive relationships, it’s super important and no one ever emphasizes it. Don’t tolerate abusive treatment from anyone
Don’t gamble
High school is like prison, the social scene is totally artificial. The only people you’ll even talk to afterwards are the friends you made, and even then only if the friendship was deeper than “we had the same class together”
Internet friends are just as good as IRL friends, especially if you are having trouble making IRL friends because your school/neighborhood sucks.
Traditional life paths don’t work anymore, our time is one of radical transformation. Feel free to experiment and see what works for you
Take the fun electives in school, there’s no guarantee it’ll still be there next year and graduation requirements may change in your last year.
Never. Start. Smoking. I know it’s really obvious advice, but after you smoke cigarettes for the first time, it’s so fucking easy to become a smoker and saying no is infinitely harder. Nicotine is a removed.
That’s why you only smoke weed 😎
Weed is just as bad.
For your lungs: yes. But you don’t get as addicted to it in my experience.
Get off instagram and tiktok
Second this.
How?
Apparently, 6 years ago, some duche picked up my phone. I forced myself to use a burner due to utter stupidity of leaving my phone in the first place for about 2 weeks.
They were the most peaceful two weeks of my life!
I could hear myself think again, I slept early, which made my 9to5 fully present and focused. I started engaging with people, got heartbroken for that, maybe my fault, point is, I started feeling the air as I breathed in and out.
So liberating.
Good guy Greg, stealing your phone to help with your addiction.
Dude, I was so pissed at myself, only to find out it was addiction, I could always buy a new phone.
Do teenagers still use Facebook? That too.
Practice your critical thinking skills now.
Fail fast and fail forward. Don’t be afraid to start, be afraid of looking back having never done anything. Regret is poison.
Learn what the pareto principle is and live by it. Be efficient.
When life gets hard focus on what’s in front of you not on the world, ideology, news, thats all distraction. Learn to stay in the moment, what’s right here, right now, infront of you.
Cherish loved ones. Focus on your health now. Your health can be gone at a moments notice, life is about balance. Every action has a reaction.
Focus on your strengths not your weaknesses. You have infinite weaknesses. Your strengths will be your lynchpin at times.
Always be curious. Don’t lose the will to learn and ask questions. Knowledge is everything.
Always stay moving physically that is biggest key to health diet and exercise and good sleep. Stay doing something productive. Being idle is the devils playground.
Listen to your gut during times of uncertainty. Trust very little of others. Words mean nothing. Actions never lie.
