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Re:Ask HN: I'm 18. If you were my age what would you do diff... by Marius_Manola on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:00AM (#41636540)
The fourth one hit really hard because we live in a world where making mistakes has been normalised to an extreme extent, where we stop being aware that we even made a mistake. And I feel that's the case with me (at least that's what my tennis coach tells me, and I kind of see that in the rest of my life)

Fortunately I don't have a problem with not making mistakes, I made a great deal of them (and many more to come) as I have been trying various online ventures for 7 years now (from youtube and freelancing to startups). And in the end some of those ended up working so well I make more than most of my school teachers do per month.

Finally, I wish I knew how not to care about what others think of me. I'm trying to find a way not to worry about it, but I'm still trying to figure it out. I think this will go away with age, as it is with most bad experiences we have in life; the cure to those experiences is to relive them again and again and realise it's not as bad as we make it up in our own heads.

Re:Ask HN: I'm 18. If you were my age what would you do diff... by taylodl on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @12:23PM (#41638197)
It certainly sounds like you "understand that experience is often the best teacher"!

As far as not caring what others think of you - I believe it comes with age. As social animals I believe we evolved to care a lot about the feedback from others while growing up since that helped us get along and survive in our tribe/clan. As we get older, we're the ones providing that feedback. Plus, survivorship bias makes us think our way must be right. That's why old people get cantankerous.