hey friends welcome back to the channel in this video i'm gonna go over 21 bits of advice that i would give to my 18 year old self let's get into it firstly think about the game that you're playing and think about what are the victory conditions of that game when you were in school then the game was very much a game of try and get really good exam results to try and get into university but when you go to university uh that is probably not the game that you're gonna continue to play and you might fall into the trap of continuing to try and play that exam results game because it's just what you've known but it's one of those things that if you are going to play that game and you know there's nothing wrong with playing that game but if you're going to play it you want to do it intentionally rather than accidentally and this question of what game am i really playing um it's actually quite a good one to keep asking yourself every few months just to make sure you're still playing the game that you thought you were playing and that crucially that you still want to be playing the game that you have found yourself playing because to be honest that decision that you took when you were 16 to go to medical school you don't need to hold yourself to that decision for the rest of your life and you absolutely can and should ignore the sunk costs and just think what's the game i'm playing right now and is this the game that i really want to be playing secondly you should try and develop some skills that you know are going to compound over the long term now this is something that you won't appreciate when you're 18 because you're going to be just thinking about the short term and you're going to be thinking like everyone does in their own like interest in the here and now but you really want to start doing things at 18 or even younger than that but you want to start doing things at 18 that are going to compound over time firstly please please please pay attention to your posture that is one of those things that when you're 18 you're spending hours an hour sitting on the computer hunched over like this because you're cool you won't see any problems when you're 18 you won't have any pain you won't have any issues like that but further down the line maybe when you're 26 you might be thinking damn my posture is really really crap and i wish i'd corrected this eight years ago point number three you really want to be taking lots more photos than you think you should because again you won't notice it at the time and you might think it's a bit of an inconvenience taking photos of stuff but your university years are never going to come again and in the future you're always going to be so glad of the memories that you recorded by taking photos at events and taking photos even of your friends as you're having chills in your room point number four you really want to be more of a documentarian of the stuff that you're consuming and the stuff that you're creating i. e please please please when you read a book or when you read an article or when you listen to a podcast or when you read i don't know the four hour work week or something like that when you read these books please write some notes about what your thoughts and feelings were as you were reading them again it's one of those things that you probably won't appreciate at the time because you'll think oh i've read this book i just want to go on to the next one but if you just take even 10 or 15 minutes to consolidate your thoughts and to think about okay what did i actually learn from this and how have my my feelings how's my reactions how's my behavior changed as a result of reading this thing or listening to this podcast then that is actually going to help you in the present moment but it's also going to be really interesting to look back on in the future and even better if you put those things on a public website then that is going to get domain value and then your own brand will start to grow much more quicker than it actually did because you were just taking the time to document the things that you were learning along the way and doing your best to try and help others point number five try and be a connector or a hub that helps connect to different people and different friendship groups you're gonna have a lot of anxiety and insecurity going into university about making friends you're going to be worried that you're not going to make friends you're going to be worried that no one's going to like you firstly take heart because literally everyone suffers from those anxieties when they go to university as well but secondly realize that any friendship group needs someone to bring them together and and be okay with being that person be okay with being the person to set up a whatsapp group for a group of friends be okay with taking the first step towards inviting people to your room to hang out be okay with organizing an event be okay with all that kind of stuff because everyone when they're in that position they want someone to take charge and you can absolutely be that person if you want point number six uh you're going to do a pretty good job of putting yourself out there at university you're going to join all these clubs and all these mailing lists and all these societies and you're going to go to all these events and recognize that while that's all very good there's always more that you could be doing and if if it's a choice between sitting in your room one night watching the vampire diaries or you know making the extra effort to get dressed and go to that event that maybe you've been putting off please go to the event again it's one of those things where the individual event that you go to probably won't matter but the more you expose yourself to other people in a non-weird way the more your surface area for serendipity will just increase and you're going to find yourself meeting people and making friends in the unlikeliest of circumstances but the way that you can essentially optimize that luck in your favor is by putting yourself out there more than you currently are point number seven get a door stop those things are fantastic they wedge your door open and keep your door wedged open at all times maybe not when you're asleep but basically every other time and actively encourage people to come to your room and actively encourage people to interrupt you while you're trying to study because you're never going to remember those like extra few bits of productivity that you had but if someone feels comfortable enough to come over to your room at 11 o'clock at night just to have a bit of a chat those are the conversations that compound into friendships further down the line and those are the things you're going to be more grateful for rather than the fact that maybe you got an extra 0. 1 percent on that essay that you're working on point number eight don't be mean to people you will only ever regret it point number nine buy some bitcoin and absolutely do not under any circumstances try and sell it point number ten nothing good ever happens after 2 a.
m you're gonna really enjoy hanging out with people until four or five in the morning recognize that up until 2 a. m those hangouts are useful after 2 a. m those like they fall off a cliff and nothing good ever happens and you just want to sleep you want to kick people out of your room and go to bed because then you won't completely waste the next day with this sort of effectively a hangover from staying up until six in the morning and then getting two hours of sleep that is proper grim nothing good ever happens after 2 a.
