Life Lessons Less Common
Just a list to save time, peace, and money.
As of: 2025-03-08
- Serve people, not causes or organizations. Cut out the middlemen.
- "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" is only viable if an employer's or governing body's permission is not required.
- Silence and freedom are far more valuable than money and stuff.
- Any response other than an enthusiastic yes is a no.
- Plan your days around your sleep schedule.
- Become an autodidactic Renaissance man, and people will call you a genius; a lot.
- Display your wealth and you'll paint a target on your back.
- Reevaluate the rules and systems put in place by those who are now dead.
- The lives of famous people do not belong to them.
- Read the Wikipedia page on Hyperreality to see bullshit for what it is.
- If your life plan requires a degree, interview the people who hold it and ask the toughest questions.
- Do not buy or rent software from publicly traded companies. Enshittification is inevitable.
- Listen to music with lyrics as the third person. Never as the first unless you want to become more like the character portrayed.
- Start your retirement project now. When you reach the age, you'll have the XP to teach others and generate income when you run out of money.
- FU money starts at 6 months' worth of living expenses.
- Minimalism is the most potent poison to the system.
- Know when you have enough.
- Don't give your MEAT (Money, Energy Attention & Time) to undisciplined adults.
- Drive in silence whenever possible.
- Video games are an absolute waste of time. You'll find greater joy and satisfaction with accoimplishments in this reality.
- Choose your suffering or one will be assigned to you.
- There exists a job where you cannot quit and cannot be fired. Use that environment wisely.
- Solidify your values as early as possible. it'll make long term planning and short term decision making significantly easier.
- When an old man with a grey beard speaks, listen. His foolish and unwise peers are probably dead.
- Measure your freedom by the list of tasks you must complete.
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That's all for now. Gotta go live.