What I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger

Don’t beat the shit out of that dude that was feeling up your girlfriend on the dancefloor. She really wasn’t worth protecting and when the shit hits the fan she won’t protect you.

Those fluorescent Ben Sherman shirts? Not a good look.

Start aviation training earlier, 7 years is a long time to move from the left seat to the right.

Go on more holidays with your friends, pretty soon they all become boring as hell.

Don’t stop weight training with the intention of picking it up again when you have time. You’ll never have the time, find it.

Really hot half Swedish/Spnaish girl? Yeah she’s batshit mental.

Savour every time the Miami Dolphins get in the playoffs, pretty soon it’s not gonna happen very fucking often.

[quote]Waittz wrote:

[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]Waittz wrote:

[quote]Chushin wrote:
Good or bad, once you hit a certain age very little changes in 10 years…[/quote]

Not if you read and travel frequently[/quote]

Ok, if your age is 16 (as your page says), I’m going to suggest that you get back to me in 40 years or so.[/quote]

Im 26, 16 would be me 10 years ago.
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If you think there is a certain age where you cant continue to learn and evolve as a person i disagree and it directly conflicts with how my mentors are conditioning me to think. [/quote]

Most people who are willing to take up a mentorship are pretty good at spotting what is going on in ways the person they are leading can’t see.

Do you suppose that there is a reason that they would be guiding you in that direction for that aspect of life?

Don’t go to frickin grad school. You are not the next Nobel prize winner, you are in fact a grossly underpaid idiot with delusions of grandeur who will be permanently out of the job once you graduate due to the ready supply of cheap grad students from third world countries who will literally do anything in order to get into the country.

[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Waittz wrote:

[quote]Chushin wrote:

[quote]Waittz wrote:

[quote]Chushin wrote:
Good or bad, once you hit a certain age very little changes in 10 years…[/quote]

Not if you read and travel frequently[/quote]

Ok, if your age is 16 (as your page says), I’m going to suggest that you get back to me in 40 years or so.[/quote]

Im 26, 16 would be me 10 years ago.
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If you think there is a certain age where you cant continue to learn and evolve as a person i disagree and it directly conflicts with how my mentors are conditioning me to think. [/quote]

Most people who are willing to take up a mentorship are pretty good at spotting what is going on in ways the person they are leading can’t see.

Do you suppose that there is a reason that they would be guiding you in that direction for that aspect of life?

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Yes, and a great point. I was pretty wreckless and getting really cocky from finding relative(key word) success early for my age. Thought I knew it all etc. In two years I ended up in over 10 countries and read close to 100 books because of them and no longer recognize the person I was before that.

I made a pact that every year for the rest of my life I will leave the country for travel at least once and read no less than 10 books after that and never stop trying to learn and better myself.

[quote]moderatelyfatman wrote:
Don’t go to frickin grad school. You are not the next Nobel prize winner, you are in fact a grossly underpaid idiot with delusions of grandeur who will be permanently out of the job once you graduate due to the ready supply of cheap grad students from third world countries who will literally do anything in order to get into the country.[/quote]

Wonder what you would do to get out of the shit covered two room house that you’ve lived in all your life with your family of 5.

Be THANKFUL that you are not from a third world country.

Just because everyone around you did the college/career/meet a nice girl/get married/buy a house/have kids thing, doesn’t mean you have to.

And don’t have kids. What a mistake that was.

What zraw would tell himself 10 years ago: “Put professor X on ignore immediately after you create an account on T-Nation.”

Sell that Grand Prix NOW! It’s going to be a fucking black hole you throw money into.

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Just because everyone around you did the college/career/meet a nice girl/get married/buy a house/have kids thing, doesn’t mean you have to.

And don’t have kids. What a mistake that was.[/quote]

Ouch, man. Care to elaborate?

Most people, even the ones caught up in an ugly divorce, would never say having kids was a mistake.

[quote]LankyMofo wrote:

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Just because everyone around you did the college/career/meet a nice girl/get married/buy a house/have kids thing, doesn’t mean you have to.

And don’t have kids. What a mistake that was.[/quote]

Ouch, man. Care to elaborate?

Most people, even the ones caught up in an ugly divorce, would never say having kids was a mistake. [/quote]

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I’ve had to read doc’s post many times because I thought for sure I was reading it wrong.

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:

And don’t have kids. What a mistake that was.[/quote]

Man, I hope you mean that you stayed in the marriage too long because you had kids or something that even remotely makes this better than it sounds at first.

[quote]doogie wrote:

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:

And don’t have kids. What a mistake that was.[/quote]

Man, I hope you mean that you stayed in the marriage too long because you had kids or something that even remotely makes this better than it sounds at first.[/quote]

LOL. I can think of many times I have looked at people with kids and thought, “They should never have had kids”.

At least he was honest with himself…unlike the 350lbs woman with 8 kids all under the age 10 stuffing her basket in Walmart with oreo cookies and pork rinds while smacking her two year old on the back of the head with 500lbs of foot pressure for …acting like a 2 year old.

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]doogie wrote:

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:

And don’t have kids. What a mistake that was.[/quote]

Man, I hope you mean that you stayed in the marriage too long because you had kids or something that even remotely makes this better than it sounds at first.[/quote]

LOL. I can think of many times I have looked at people with kids and thought, “They should never have had kids”.

At least he was honest with himself…unlike the 350lbs woman with 8 kids all under the age 10 stuffing her basket in Walmart with oreo cookies and pork rinds while smacking her two year old on the back of the head with 500lbs of foot pressure for …acting like a 2 year old.[/quote]
We have had discussions with Dr Pang outside of here PX he is not this type of father, I believe he was probably more in regretting whom he had kids with.

Save more. don’t quit working out. Try therapy first instead of psychotropics. Value the few real friends you have. Cut out negative people.

I’m too young to contribute much but I’d tell twelve-year old me:

It’s ok to lose an argument.
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Have more fun.

I really like these “learn from the grown-ups” threads.

Great thread, it made for an interesting read.

I could rattle on but I’ll sum it up with 2 things:

  1. Go to www.T-Nation.com and read everything

  2. For everything else listen to the ‘Wear Sunscreen’ song and do everything he says

[quote]Marzouk wrote:
How many iphones apple would sell. I would of put every single penny i had into buying apple shares… Something like $9 10 years ago… 700 back in Autumn last year.

Stop eating dude.

Put down the xbox pad and pick up some meat and something heavy. [/quote]

well in a back to the future like scenario, even making the aplle investment would be pennies compared to what you could do.

IF you start with low means, making 100 times what you did in 10 years is just the tip of the ice-berg.