37 lessons from 37 years
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2 min readMay 4, 2016
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As of today, I have been alive for 37 years. Here is everything I’ve learned:
- Whenever possible, act now.
- You’re worth so much more than your eyeballs.
- What you think is “all in your head,” may actually be in your body. Find a good doctor.
- Trust your subconscious. It knows your path better than you do.
- Get therapy.
- You’re bombarded with mediocre opportunities.
- Thus, it’s your challenge to ignore mediocre opportunities.
- You’re bombarded with mediocre friendships and relationships.
- Thus, it’s your challenge to ignore mediocre friendships and relationships.
- Most people are dying to distract themselves from their own thoughts.
- There is a lot of money to be made in distracting people from their own thoughts.
- Thus, everything around you is built to help people distract themselves from their own thoughts.
- So, ignore most everything, and make space for your own thoughts.
- Nobody reads the whole article before commenting.
- Nearly everybody is “juicing.” They’re making themselves sick trying to catch up with one another.
- Thus, your challenge is to catch up with your self.
- You can only know so much.
- And, your brain is ruled by biases.
- Thus, you can hardly trust what you think you know.
- And, you can only know so much about a person.
- So, if you feel jealous when comparing yourself to someone else, you’re wrong.
- Take improv classes. It will get you out of your head, and into the moment.
- Take voice lessons. It really is possible to improve your singing.
- Only sing in a key that is comfortable for you.
- Take lessons in a social dance (Salsa, Swing, Tango, etc.) You’ll learn to cooperate, and you’ll have instant community anywhere you travel.
- Traveling sucks. It’s much better to live in different places for short bursts.
- What you think is a personality flaw may just be the bad influence of the place where you live.
- What you think sucks about where you live may just be a flaw in your perception.
- If you merely suspect something is holding you back. It’s not. You are.
- When you dream of something, that thing seems impossible.
- When something you dream of feels impossible, it makes you unhappy.
- Thus, be comfortable with where you are.
- But still, dream, while being comfortable with where you are.
- When you use a bookmark, you invite yourself to forget what you’ve read.
- Thus, don’t use bookmarks.
- Smart people do dumb things when the pressure is on.
- Even though it’s cliché to end a list with something pithy, it ties it up nicely. Clichés are clichés for a reason.