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Social media explained with donuts
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A repost in honor of National Doughnut Day
I am good at completely missing my knees while shaving my legs.
I must go. My swing needs me.
20 Things I Should Have Known at 20
http://inoveryourhead.net/20-things-i-should-have-known-at-20/
1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead.
2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. You both learn and get respect from people worth getting it from by leading and doing, not by following.
3. Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention.
4. Connect with everyone, all the time. Learn to find something you like in each person, and then speak to that thing.
5. Don’t waste time being shy. Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true.
6. If you feel weird about something during a relationship, that’s usually what you end up breaking up over.
7. Have as much contact as possible with older people. The reason this is so valuable is because people your age don’t usually have the decision-making ability to help you very much. Also they know almost everything you will learn later, so ask them.
8. Find people that are cooler than you and hang out with them too. This and the corollary are both important: “don’t attempt to be average inside your group. Continuously attempt to be cooler than them, by doing cooler things, being more laid back, accepting, ambitious, etc.”
9. You will become more conservative over time. Those you surround yourself with create a kind of “bubble” that pushes you to support the status quo.
10. Reduce all expenses as much as possible. This creates a safety net that will allow you to do the crazier shit above.
11. Instead of getting status through objects (which provide only temporary boosts), do it through experiences.
12. While you are living on the cheap, solve the money problem. If you are currently living paycheck to paycheck, extend that to three weeks instead of two. Then, as you get better, you can think a month ahead, then three months, then six, and finally a year ahead.
13. Learn to program.
14. Get a six-pack (or get thin, whatever your goal is) while you are young.
15. Learn to cook. This will make everything much easier and it turns food from a chore + expensive habit into a pleasant + frugal one.
16. Sleep well. This and cooking will help with the six pack. If you think “I have too much to do to sleep,” I have news for you: you are INEFFICIENT, and sleep deprivation isn’t helping.
17. Get a reminder app for everything. Do not trust your own brain for your memory. Do not trust it for what you “feel like” you should be doing.
18. Choose something huge to do, as well as allowing the waves of opportunity to help you. If you don’t set goals, stuff may happen, but if you do choose, lots more will.
19. Get known for one thing. Spend like 5 years doing it instead of flopping around all over the place. If you want to shift afterwards, go ahead.
20. Don’t try to “fix” anyone. Instead, look for someone who isn’t broken.
(Source: icanread)
