discussion If you could go back in time and talk to your 18-year-old self, what is the advice that you’d give him?

[gandrews2k3]

Get out and socialise more. You usually enjoy it and it opens up so many opportunities for relationships that you would never expect and its more than worth it for those times nothing interesting happens

 

[User_19537]

buy all the bitcoin

 

[stangnomez]

NAMEWITHELD is into you

 

[Karamchad]

Buy bitcoin.
Buy apple shares.
Buy more bitcoin.

That is it. Everything else in my life is pretty much fine.

 

[nananice]

Stay away from btc

 

[boia]

Buy bitcoin.
Buy apple shares.
Buy more bitcoin.

That is it. Everything else in my life is pretty much fine.

Buy Tesla and Amazon shares too.
And start to read VN.

 

[Antaeus]

Learn a trade then worry about college

 

[Ripowar]

Buy Bitcoins and NVIDIA shares as soon and as much as you can.
Stop being so damn nice to the girls ... most of them don't appreciate it and you get friendzoned too often, but get no fuck at all from them.

 

[azlocs]

Get a job and live a little before college, don't fuck Brian's gf

 

[User_60858]

don't settle, go higher

 

[itumrekt]

Dont choose engineering pls. Im begging u

 

[cynist]

1. Be on the lookout for Bitcoin. You're going to hear about it on the radio - someone buying pizza with Bitcoin. Learn about it, and buy into it as soon as you can.

2. You've got ADHD. Talk to a doctor. If they don't believe you, go to another one. Learn about it. Harness its power.

3. For fuck's sake, stay away from Nicole.

 

[mncsr]

Live your life.
Don’t listen all of the advise what you get, go with the way what you feel is yours

 

[anadct]

Give him the blueprints to the timemachine and say if he break the loop they will come, then disappear

 

[stark]

I would tell myself that I was way more awkward than I thought I was, so work on reading the room before saying things. And to stay in shape, that makes everything in life easier.
And obviously all the investment advice.

 

[kikomascado]

Buy lots of bitcoin as soon as possible, sell it during Covid lockdown.

 

[hmadao]

Take better care of your body and stop procrastinating.

 

[stangnomez]

Buy Enron

 

[Republican Bear]

Don't drop out and settle for a GED, treat your family better because they wont be around for forever, and for the love of god don't get married.

 

[Nastastic]

Most of the damage was already done by then, but..,

1) Get therapy/counseling as soon as you can! You have a personality disorder that will not go away (on top of the ADHD that you've had all your life and will be diagnosed with in college) but getting help now can help you deal with it. In 30+ years all the opportunities and your own potential that you wasted due to that deadly combo of self-loathing, laziness and procrastination will mean that you are alone, poor and your life is shit. Being low-key suicidal 24/7 is not normal.

2) Start exercising and eating better/less. Seriously, 30 minutes a day won't kill you and you don't need another helping! Even though your real problems are mental, being a fatass doesn't help with any of it. Hell, even being a loser is better than being a fatass loser! And your knees will thank you!

3) Make a plan for college. A plan to graduate with a degree, dumbass. You will not get to linger indefinitely, not on student aid. Don't drop out with nothing to show for it but a mountain of student debt like I did. To that effect, at least consider going into STEM like you were going to before you decided the math was too hard. It just doesn't come easy but you can actually do it if you put in some fucking effort.

4) Investments. I don't really remember what was small back then and big now, or at least got big and you could sell it off before it crashed. If I couldn't do any research beforehand, I would tell me to remember that this thing coming up called the "Internet" will be huge, and to remember the following: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Bitcoin. Use whatever income you don't need for donating to good causes to try and offset the damage those companies do.

5) Talk to girls/women. They won't make the first move, generally speaking, because that's not the way our society is structured. Hopefully after a few years of counseling (see above) rejection will be manageable and not make you want to kill yourself more than usual. And of course if you're not a broke, fatass loser some might actually be interested.