What should one do in their 20s to avoid regrets in their 30s and 40s?
Life advice to the younger generations (from an ex-school teacher and scientist)
1. Don’t follow the crowd. Re-think the common values and what is commonly valued (even when they are religious) — such as money and titles. Know and see through the difference between price, cost, worth, and value. (They are really different)
2. Go where no one went. Learn how to handle danger. You will be able to laugh within storms in life and take down crisis. It’s a step to be bigger than life.
3. Learn anything and everything. Make your own blend of magic by re-inventing methodologies and draft paradigms. Code and codify your own reportire of `life grimoire` (`spell book` for life — your own formulation and insights).
4. Be faster, stronger, smarter, and especially most importantly, kinder.
5. Be loved and lovable. Bring joy, energy and hope. Start early. It is really an art.
6. Know where you are really going early. Don’t lose yourself later. Think 300 years ahead at least. Chart beyond your grave. Know the difference between life and livelihood. Most people sold more than their labor. They sold their dignity, integrity and finally, their sanity.
7. Learn to think clearly — not just `think differently` — especially, when it is just an empty slogan blindly parroted and embraced by the common plebeian.
8. Learn how to kill your ego. It blinds and fetters us from possibility and progress. Learn how to burst your bubble with simple questions as “what if things aren't as what they seem to be?” and vitally — “what if I am wrong?”.