Life Advice: What can I start doing now that will help me a lot in about five years?
1. If you do anything, do this first one: learn how to work hard and stick with something. Learn how to turn off Facebook and control your addiction to social media. You’ll instantly be ahead of 90% of your generation. 2. Video games are a time sink. If you can play for an hour and say “That was fun, let’s do something else” then you’re ok. Otherwise, just get rid of them. 3. Pick up an athletic hobby that you can do through the years, or your sedentary academic lifestyle will do horrible things to your posture, back, and gut. 4. Learn how to deal with interpersonal conflicts. Read Crucial Conversations and practice - it’s a lifechanger. 5. Learn as much programming as you can. It’s never a bad idea to learn a programming language (unless that language is COBOL—just kidding, you can even make money coding in COBOL). 6. Learn how to display data in R. 7. Learn how to talk on the phone with people you don’t know. It still terrifies most people. Get a phone sales job and quit after