30 golden ideas to help you reverse your youth and grow up: a must-read growth guide for young people.
Seek constructive criticism as early as possible. Knowing the problems sooner rather than later will prevent you from losing opportunities for improvement.
To improve your speeches, watch a recording of yourself speaking. It will shock you, and it will hurt, but it’s an effective way to make progress.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Worry is pointless. It’s a safe bet that 99% of the things you worry about won’t happen.
If a website has the word “truth” in its URL, don’t visit it.
Be extremely frugal with your promises, because when it comes to keeping them, you must be generous.
You think you see the future, but you’re only seeing the present.
A proper apology involves three Rs: regret, responsibility, and remedy.
The best way to give advice to young people is to figure out what they really want to do.
Be more hopeful, because if you can do that, you and the people around you will be better off.
Invest in yourself without hesitation—take classes, learn new skills. These seemingly small investments can yield huge returns.
A worthwhile life goal is to become influential.
The quirks you had as a child can make you remarkable as an adult—if you don’t lose them.
If you don’t know what you’re passionate about, then chasing happiness will only demotivate you in the end. For most young people, a better path is to master a skill first. In the process of learning a skill, you’ll gain a perspective and be able to find your happiness more easily.
To quiet a crowd or a drunk, simply whisper.
When you lend something, consider it a gift. If they return it, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
At any age, you can ask yourself, “Why am I still doing this?” You need a good answer to that question.
A balcony or porch needs to be at least two meters long, otherwise you won’t use it.
Life gets better when you replace transactional relationships with healthy ones.
The importance of money is overrated. Creating truly new things doesn’t usually require a lot of money. Otherwise, new inventions would be monopolized by billionaires, but that’s not the case. On the contrary, almost all breakthroughs are created by people who are short on money.
If you can’t decide what you desperately need, what you desperately need might be sleep.
You can be extremely serious about a simple thing, almost anything. Treat it as the only thing in the world, and perhaps you can assume that the whole world depends on this one thing. Just take this one thing seriously, and you can light up the sky.
When making anything, prepare a little extra, like extra materials, parts, space, or decorations. These extras are a safeguard against mistakes, can reduce stress, and prevent future risks. It's the cheapest insurance.
Nobody cares about your stuff as much as you do.
Never work for someone you don’t want to be.
There are no secrets. It’s best to tell people the unwelcome news directly. Secrets can’t be kept, and they will inevitably be spread. Also, everyone who knows a secret will be corrupted by it. Don’t seek out secrets.
The expanding universe is rich and full. It is so abundant.
Focus on what you love, instead of constantly criticizing what you hate, and you’ll become better, and you’ll make others better too. Life is short, focus on the good things.
When dividing things, one person divides, and the other chooses first.