A delightful series of life lessons from people just turned 30, 40, 50 and 60, along with a 74-year-old. A selection:
30:
— don’t work for startups, they’re always one ‘innovative idea’ away adding ‘sell your kidneys on the black market’ to your job description.
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— those little single-use glasses cleaning wipes are 1000% worth the money
— overly self-depreciating jokes just make people uncomfortable, wean yourself off of them
40:
— never get down on the floor without an exit strategy for getting back up
50:
- “loving yourself” is less of a feeling and more of an action. you can start doing it any time and it will make your life better and better as you go on
- this will happen incrementally - be patient
- along those lines, if you haven’t started making an active effort to quit shit-talking yourself, suck it up and do it
- no, shut up. do it. “but it’s haaaaard!” don’t care. do it.
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- at some point you will encounter people much younger than you arguing passionately and incorrectly about history you personally remember and experienced
- this will be infuriating and annoying
- otoh, most other things just… will not matter to you as much
- at some point you will shift from wanting to go out to being like “eh” and deciding to stay in. this is okay.
- you will have absolutely no idea what The Youth are talking about and you will not care
- but if you keep your mind open to new ideas you’ll never be irrelevant
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- get a fucking hobby, especially a hobby that involves physically creating/handling something and/or moving your body in physical space. it will do you more good than you can imagine