Advice for myself

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Curated collection of advice and insights gathered from various sources

Don’t be so hard on yourself for feeling lost, confused or like you haven’t achieved all that you wanted to achieve. Life would be pretty damn boring if you’d done it all already, if you had no more room to grow or things to learn. Be patient. You’ll eventually figure it all out and everything will make perfect sense. Every experience will get you to where you are supposed to be. Every win, every loss, every heartbreak and every mistake. Don’t be afraid to fuck up, and don’t expect success overnight. Get lost, get so damn lost and find yourself over and over again.

  1. You will receive a body. You may like it or not but it is yours for the entire time you’re on Earth.

  2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called “life.” Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid.

  3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much as the process as the experiment that ultimately works.

  4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. Then you can go on to the next lesson.

  5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

  6. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” has become “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that is, again, better than “here.”

  7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

  8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need — what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

  9. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

  10. You will forget all this. You can remember whenever you want.

  1. The more you hate a trait in someone else, the more likely you are avoiding it in yourself.
  2. People who can’t trust, can’t be trusted.
  3. The more you try to impress people, the less impressed they’ll be.
  4. The more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed.
  5. The more something scares you, the more you should probably do it.
  6. The more afraid you are of death, the less you’ll be able to enjoy life.
  7. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know.
  8. The less you care about others, the less you care about yourself.
  9. The more connected we get, the more isolated we feel.
  10. The more you’re afraid to fail, the more likely you are to fail.
  11. The harder you push for something, the harder it will feel to achieve.
  12. The more available something is, the less you will want it.
  13. The best way to meet someone else is to not need to be with someone else.
  14. The more honest you are about your faults, the more people will think you’re perfect.
  15. The more you try to keep someone close, the further away you’ll push them.
  16. The more you try to argue with someone, the less likely you are to convince them of your perspective.
  17. The more choices you have, the less satised you are with each one
  18. The more convinced someone is that they’re right, the less they probably know.
  19. The only certainty is that nothing is ever certain.
  20. The only constant is change

Be more obscure. More esoteric. Make people ask questions. Make people do their research.

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Don’t be such a dick to your parents, you entitled little shit. You live in a world where 99.9999999% of humans care more about how their hair looks than whether you live or die, and then there’s this person, or two if you’re lucky, who’d give their lives for you.

Economic inflation happens when more and more money is needed to buy fewer and fewer goods, and semiotic inflation happens when more and more signs buy less and less meaning.