Advice for people in their 20s
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Picked this up from a post one of my very good friends wrote. Very smart and thoughtful lady and always speaking with immense wisdom. Happy to share her thoughts with you since I’m pretty sure you all fall in this age-range.
Use sunscreen—60 year old you will thank you
Travel far— to places least familiar to you
Tell them how you really feel. Life is too short to be scared of taking the L
Love yourself unconditionally even if you have a ways to go/grow
Be there for your friends in any way you can
Give, give and give some more. You’ll always get it back in ways you least expect and in times when you need it most
Grow the network— life really is about who you know. But don’t just grow it up, grow it down too. People who haven’t yet “arrived” could use your help.
Wear the outfit more than once. I promise you no one cares, and if they do, then they need to find more important things to care about
Save and invest at least 10% of whatever you make and don’t rack up unnecessary debt
Find out who you are and be that person. You’ll free up so much energy for more important things when you live authentically.
Article List— What I’m reading (10 articles a day x 7 days x 4 weeks x 12 months = 3360 articles a year).
Colossal cathedral plans divide Ghana and stir religious angst: 🙃🙃🙃 My Twitter people know how I feel about this topic already. But anyway, they’re going to do what they’re going to do.
A day-long mobile money shutdown will test the effectiveness of Zimbabwe’s new bank notes: People paying premiums of up to 50% to get their cash from mobile money agents. Yea, that’s wild.
The Common Denominator of Success: “The common denominator of success --- the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful --- lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.”
Venture capitalist questions lack of women, role of foreign founders in Africa’s tech sector: “When we look at how many are actually African founders, versus foreign founders that are on the continent, those are some of the questions that we have to ask as numbers grow. Are they growing for our ecosystem or are we still developing developed countries?” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This 13-year-old invented a better version of the Hyperloop: See what the future holds. I’m excited for this.
Time Machines & Species Failure: 2013 Bombardier Challenger 300: Total costs over 10 years — depreciation, operating, and financing costs minus tax benefits = $10 million. (Not that I’ve dreamt of this … every day.) A two-bedroom that can skim the surface of the atmosphere at .83 the speed of sound would give me another 13 days a year at home with my family. So, if you had the money, would you, at the end of life, rather have $10 million or 4 more months with family? I love my family and precisely why I’ll be getting a jet.
Podcast— What I’m listening to (1 podcast episode a day= 365 podcast episodes a year) — Broadening my experiences through others’ stories.
New Pivot is out. Check out the new bands with Kara and Scott. These people are such clowns 😂😂
Book— 1 Chapter a day x 7 days x 4 weeks x 12 months = 336 chapters. Most books have 10-12 chapters, so 1 year = 28 to 33 books. And my book list is nearing 1000 books. Send help 🌚
Venture Deals teaching a lot. According to this book, I may just end up being smarter than my lawyer and VC friends.
📱📱Quote of the day
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” - Martin Luther King
Remember: “Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”