Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had at your age

Re:Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had a... by pjc50 on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:22AM (#18903595)

> all of these things are more achievable than you think

Perhaps one of them is achievable, but only at the cost of a very high level of focus - and giving up on the others.

Travel is certainly a lot easier to achieve when you're young, and in many places cheaper (e.g. Interrail tickets, which I would recommend to anyone looking to see a lot of countries in a short time)

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Re:Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had a... by theossuary on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:27AM (#18903639)

I think that's the point of the application? This is advice from older people to their younger self, so a lot of it won't resonate with you (your nothing like them). Find the bits that do, and try to gain a bit of perspective from them

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Re:Show HN: HeyFromTheFuture – Advice people wish they had a... by gowld on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:32AM (#18903681)

At the same time, advice from people who have unrealistic regret at missing out on all the options they didn't pick isn't very helpful. Life is a series of choices. Saying yes to everything is impossible. Good advice is for ideas are short-term sacrifices (at least in perception) for long-term payoff, not for grasping at everything desirable.

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