The twenty-something and quarter-life crisis
A note for nobody and out of nothing.
1. Regardless of their ex-post stories, every single self-made successful person starts as low as you.
2. You don't have to confront everything. Many issues part of crises solve themselves while you're busy doing what's worthwhile.
3. My visualization of enlightenment is a multi-story building. When you're at first floor, you can hear, read, see pictures, and imagine the view on the tenth floor. But the only way to actually have the view and feeling of the tenth floor is to ascend to it. Ascending each staircase takes time, efforts, and trials. So, there's no need to worry if you're already on your way.
4. Success, knowledge, and enlightenment are seldom incremental. You'll have occasional breakthroughs in your life, either through formal learning, meeting the right mentor, doing the right job, or being plain lucky. Preparation for breakthrough is, however, incremental: you go nowhere if you don't add something every day.
5. Many confuse guidelines for measures. If you treat "by thirty you should have done XYZ" and such as a direction rather than a measure, you'll feel happier doing it.
6. Different pathways have different milestones. If yours is a late bloomer, be it and ignore premature pressure.
7. If you lower your hope while sustaining the quality of work, you'll feel happier about every outcome.
8. If you're not born to a privileged family, don't envy the more privileged. Work with them. Be indispensable that they want you.
9. Remember your silly moments when you were a teenager? Can you now laugh at those moments and feel relieved that you have solved most of your problems back then? Your future self will laugh at you now, and feel relieved.
10. Fun and happiness are very different. Happiness is longer term, and more painful to reach.
11. Ignore noises, irrelevant signals, and beautiful bullshit.
12. Investing in health is never unfruitful. You'll need health for mid-life crisis.
1. Regardless of their ex-post stories, every single self-made successful person starts as low as you.
2. You don't have to confront everything. Many issues part of crises solve themselves while you're busy doing what's worthwhile.
3. My visualization of enlightenment is a multi-story building. When you're at first floor, you can hear, read, see pictures, and imagine the view on the tenth floor. But the only way to actually have the view and feeling of the tenth floor is to ascend to it. Ascending each staircase takes time, efforts, and trials. So, there's no need to worry if you're already on your way.
4. Success, knowledge, and enlightenment are seldom incremental. You'll have occasional breakthroughs in your life, either through formal learning, meeting the right mentor, doing the right job, or being plain lucky. Preparation for breakthrough is, however, incremental: you go nowhere if you don't add something every day.
5. Many confuse guidelines for measures. If you treat "by thirty you should have done XYZ" and such as a direction rather than a measure, you'll feel happier doing it.
6. Different pathways have different milestones. If yours is a late bloomer, be it and ignore premature pressure.
7. If you lower your hope while sustaining the quality of work, you'll feel happier about every outcome.
8. If you're not born to a privileged family, don't envy the more privileged. Work with them. Be indispensable that they want you.
9. Remember your silly moments when you were a teenager? Can you now laugh at those moments and feel relieved that you have solved most of your problems back then? Your future self will laugh at you now, and feel relieved.
10. Fun and happiness are very different. Happiness is longer term, and more painful to reach.
11. Ignore noises, irrelevant signals, and beautiful bullshit.
12. Investing in health is never unfruitful. You'll need health for mid-life crisis.
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