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Thread: If you met your 16 year old self, what would be one piece of advice you would give?

post 1629194003 01-20-2021, 04:58 PM
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Your current friends aren't gonna stay in contact with you after high school, stop hanging out with them
Drop sports completely and focus on maintaining a 4.0 GPA and get into the best College possible
Study Computer Science
Start an online company, whatever you feel like building, it doesn't matter if you fail
post 1629194193 01-20-2021, 05:01 PM
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just walk up and say hi
post 1629194233 01-20-2021, 05:01 PM
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Drink 2 litres of full cream milk every day and make the most of that young high test
post 1629197583 01-20-2021, 05:38 PM
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Lets assume you can't give lottery information or investing information.

-Quit school immediately and get a GED.
-Never go into debt except for real estate loans.
-Get a job in the real estate industry and start saving money.
-Build a social media network/network with people.
-Invest heavily in the stock market. In innovative technology companies.
-At 18 focus on buying rental properties. Goal of 1 per year.
-Minimize contact with negative people and those that are living dead end lives.
-Spend more time with positive people that are goal oriented and work hard to achieve those goals.




Lets be real here. By 16 you've already obtained all of the education you'll ever need. Instead of focusing on getting an education to get a good job and work for the man. You should be focusing on building a business/investments. I personally know 8 self made millionaires and only one went to college. (Started a tech company). The others only have GEDs and dropped out of HS at 16-18. Entrepreneurs.

System is broken.
post 1629198803 01-20-2021, 05:52 PM
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Learn how to focus on one thing at a time and finish what you start.
Don't blow your education and just get good enough grades to open doors.
It's not what you know, it's who you know - be a friend to everyone.
Find something you love doing that people will pay you lots of money for because they don't want to do it.
post 1629199013 01-20-2021, 05:55 PM
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Funny you should ask. I posted this same question on another website but used 18 years.
post 1629200763 01-20-2021, 06:15 PM
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I wouldn't tell myself anything.
I'm perfectly content with where I am, my life up until now and the current path I'm on.
Srs
Rustling NPCs' jimmies without even trying crew

"I've watched a lot of movies, I know what I'm doing."

"The Best Revenge is Massive Success"

Not going to be a Darkseeker crew.


RIP Duckenheimer
RIP SemperFudge
post 1629201123 01-20-2021, 06:18 PM
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Hop on OJ and train combat sports as soon as possible.
post 1629201823 01-20-2021, 06:27 PM
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Separate yourself socially from lower class people ASAP.

20k in BTC in 2009.
post 1629202233 01-20-2021, 06:32 PM
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Have more fun.
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post 1629202603 01-20-2021, 06:37 PM
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When faced with an opportunity unless you feel an enthusiastic "yes!" you should just say "no".
post 1629202943 01-20-2021, 06:42 PM
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do not go to university and dont buy other useless ****
post 1629203223 01-20-2021, 06:45 PM
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Just accept the fact that you're gay. Srs. Hell, I'd tell that to my current self but he wouldn't listen.
Misc Entrepreneur Crew
post 1629203493 01-20-2021, 06:49 PM
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I’d be like “can I give you some advice?”

And he’d be like “nah”
post 1629203683 01-20-2021, 06:51 PM
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Spend money developing yourself as a person instead of focusing so much on having nice things.
post 1629203733 01-20-2021, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted By LooksMaximus⏩
Hop on OJ and train combat sports as soon as possible.
At 16?
post 1629203793 01-20-2021, 06:52 PM
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Call him a *******
Would kick em in the nuts
post 1629203983 01-20-2021, 06:54 PM
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- Put studying and career planning first. Socializing, sports, all that bs are distant seconds and thirds type outlets at most.

- Don't go to university. Go balls deep into the workforce immediately after high school, and do whatever it takes to work up to a quality full-time job by age 21 at the latest. Find full-time work with benefits asap, piss on all that part-time poverty wage bs.

- Don't get married. Getting the government involved in your marriage does nothing to quantifiably improve it, but it does make ending relationships a 100x bigger pain in the angus than it needs to be.

- If you do get married, keep it inexpensive. Racking up huge bills on a 1 day party is not going to make you feel any sort of long-term happiness.

- Never get serious with any woman who has a personality/history of never being satisifed with anything for long. If she's never happy for long with jobs, her educational pursuits, friends, etc., then she'll end up getting bored with you too, regardless of what you do.
post 1629204013 01-20-2021, 06:55 PM
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NEVER

****ING EVER

GO TO COLLEGE

It will put you in debt, the professors will attack you for being white and you will above all waste valuable time you could be making youth gains and living your real life.

DO NOT-- REPEAT -- DO NOT ASK FOR A DIPLOMA TO MAKE MONEY AND GET A SOURCE OF INCOME. LIFE IS BEYOND GOING TO SCHOOL AND GO OUT AND DO WHAT YOU WANT AND LOVE AND THEN FIND SOME WAY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THAT.
post 1629204473 01-20-2021, 07:01 PM
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geat lean and learn js
post 1629204913 01-20-2021, 07:06 PM
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1) Don't forget to lift, start now

2) Get a job before going to college, quit marching band sooner to make this possible, save the money you make

3) Don't take out too much in loans for "safety" or "fun" while at University

4) When you hit University, and you can be indecisive with the major - Engineering General - go ahead and specify Comp Sci

5) Don't date or talk to X Y Z A B C

6) Enjoy being single, it's a blessing in itself

7) Take studies seriously... don't F up a specific semester because you stopped caring

8) No one cares about how you look or what you do more than yourself
post 1629205493 01-20-2021, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted By Visel⏩
3) Don't take out too much in loans for "safety" or "fun" while at University
Borrow whatever you can to put in crypto, FAANG, TSLA etc.
post 1629205533 01-20-2021, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted By tylerdurdenmode⏩
NEVER

****ING EVER

GO TO COLLEGE.
Some of the guys I know who went the tradie route are making 200k a year.
No debt, no 3 or 4 years of indoctrination.
They got paid a great wage while learning too.
Rustling NPCs' jimmies without even trying crew

"I've watched a lot of movies, I know what I'm doing."

"The Best Revenge is Massive Success"

Not going to be a Darkseeker crew.


RIP Duckenheimer
RIP SemperFudge
post 1629205653 01-20-2021, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted By Tornach⏩
Some of the guys I know who went the tradie route are making 200k a year.
No debt, no 3 or 4 years of indoctrination.
They got paid a great wage while learning too.
What trade? srs
post 1629205763 01-20-2021, 07:16 PM
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Go to Stanford
ok
post 1629205933 01-20-2021, 07:19 PM
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Live a clean life you’ll thank yourself when when your 32
post 1629206103 01-20-2021, 07:20 PM
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“It’s not gonna change, ever.”
“Grieve”
“Be vulnerable”
“Die to ‘self’”
post 1629206283 01-20-2021, 07:21 PM
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Don't go to university. Instead work and invest/trade aggressively with that money while I'm young.
post 1629206433 01-20-2021, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted By mesobuild⏩
Borrow whatever you can to put in crypto, FAANG, TSLA etc.
Haha yeah. Realistically if I only had ONE thing to tell my 16 year old self back then...

1) Powerball numbers on ##/##/#### are X Y Z.

And if I had a bonus round...

2) Put all your money into Bitcoin, don't sell until it reaches $40k, and I promise you it one day will, just hold on.
post 1629206603 01-20-2021, 07:24 PM
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