In Your Twenties? Fix Your Fragile Ego With These 16 Glaringly Obvious Life Lessons

Let’s get to the point so you can start enjoying yourself

Eve Arnold
The Post-Grad Survival Guide

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Your 20s hit you like a fish to the face. It’s not a nice feeling, it’s a shock to the system and it leaves an after taste. The training wheels are off and all of a sudden we are riding the bike, we’re wobbling all over the place and we’re not totally sure where we are going but it seems, somehow that we’re going forward.

Sometimes we stop and look around, that’s when we start to get worried that we’re not doing this right. We might not have our career figured out, we might have 0 savings and we might not know what the right notebook is to take to a meeting.

We feel lost.

If you’re reading this and feel lost, carry on — it might help.

1. How could you possibly be lost if you don’t know where you’re going?

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by

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