Life Advice: 20s (age) Travel Hacks Self-Awareness Healthy Living Careers Colleges and Universities Travel Career Advice ★ Life Advice: What can I start doing now that will help me a lot in about five years? I will appreciate any suggestion. You might want to know that Im 23 years old and currently a physics student with large desire for progress, not only in my profession but also in all aspects of life. 43+ CommentsDownvote • Sign in to read all of Quora. Continue with GoogleContinue with Facebook By continuing you indicate that you have read and agree to the Terms of Service. Sign Up with Email Related Questions Life: Turning 30: What are five lessons that one can learn on turning 30 that will really help them for the next 10 years of the... (continue) Aging: What can I do now at age 64 that my future self will thank me for? Career Advice: How can I ensure that the next five weeks of my work will be remembered or have meant something five years from now? Psychology: Im 32 and female. What is one thing I can start doing now that will really improve my life/increase my achievements/ make... (continue) 20s (age): What can I do in my 20s that will benefit my future self in terms of health? What are some things that I can start now that will be useful years down the road? Self-Improvement: What are the best ways to build up the confidence when people in your vicinity are not willing to help you out with that? Tips and Hacks for Everyday Life: What can I do to maximize the chances that what I do now will still be relevant 10 years from now? 20s (age): What can I do now in my 20s to ensure that I will never have to live in a retirement home? What can I start doing now (20 years old) to make sure my penis works as long as possible? 298 Answers 6.8k David Cannon, FindProz Co-founder Votes by Susana Ferreira, Subhrajyoti Ghatak, Quora User, Audric Steibel, and 6810 more. Theres already a lot here and you probably stopped reading, but I couldnt resist writing a note to my 23 year old self: If you do anything, do this first one: learn how to work hard and stick with something. Learn how to turn off Facebook and control your addiction to social media. Youll instantly be ahead of 90% of your generation. Video games are a time sink. If you can play for an hour and say That was fun, lets do something else then youre ok. Otherwise, just get rid of them. Pick up an athletic hobby that you can do through the years, or your sedentary academic lifestyle will do horrible things to your posture, back, and gut. Learn how to deal with interpersonal conflicts. Read Crucial Conversations and practice - its a lifechanger (shameless plug: Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition) Learn as much programming as you can. Its never a bad idea to learn a programming language (unless that language is COBOL—just kidding, you can even make money coding in COBOL). Learn how to display data in R. Learn how to talk on the phone with people you dont know. It still terrifies most people. Get a phone sales job and quit after a few weeks. Start some kind of little side venture to learn entrepreneurial principles. Start a window washing business, buy and sell stuff on Craigslist, do anything. You might need them if youre in between jobs. Take a course on statistics and how theyre misused, specifically how faulty causal arguments are made. It will change the way you approach almost any discussion, quantitative or not. (Read How to Lie with Statistics: Darrell Huff) Always have a private place where you can talk out loud to God every day. Even if youre not religious or dont believe in God. Talk out loud to the universe. Sort out your thoughts, verbalize them, and then write down what comes to mind. Something wiser than you is listening and responding, even if its just another side of you. Use Mint to track your expenses. Make a budget and learn how to stick to it. Learn to live lean now while you can, so you wont be forced to later on. Learn a foreign language, but only if you anticipate using it. Sure, there are side benefits, but youll forget it. Learn how to network. Read Never Eat Alone. (plug: amzn.to/XQqfrM). Hint: its about doing things for other people. Learn how to cook tasty, cheap food. Especially this bread. Make this bread. No really. steamykitchen/168... Find music that inspires you and makes you feel alive.Listen to it every morning and if its something embarrassing just dont tell your friends about it. Save up a few thousand dollars and go somewhere crazy with a few friends. Live in a hostel for a few weeks. Get malaria if you have to. It will change your life and you will think about it forever (not the malaria part - youll get over that.) When someone promises you easy money, run the other way. Yes, it IS a scam. Read a book a week. When you get ridiculously wealthy, read a book a day. Read fiction too. Upvote • 88+ Comments • Updated Sun Nov 03 2013
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