12 Gamechangers I Wish I Knew in My Early 20s
They may be valid for all ages — if you’re late to the party
No, you don’t have time.
This is urgent.
Because, as you probably know by now, once you’re in your 20s, time starts to accelerate. Why?
Two reasons.
First — habituation.
The days of wondering what a cat, a seashell, or a washing machine are are over. The fun moments of smearing mud into someone else’s face — or tripping someone up just for the heck of it — are gone.
What’s left is to become good at what you already know. From that moment on, it is only up to you whether you want to learn new things or get into a rut.
The second reason for time speeding up is a mathematical ratio, which increasingly starts going against your favor.
When you’re 10 years old, a year is one tenth of your life, even more if you discount the first foggy years of your childhood. In your twenties, it reduces to one twentieth, and by the time you’re 50, a year is nothing but another cycle past too quickly.
I can still remember thinking of how “I still have my whole life in front of me”, wasting days, months, years of my life on things which were not entirely wrong…
