Ask HN: What's one bit of advice you'd give to your younger self?

[king_kerr]

Thinking more along the lines of personal & professional development.

[bartvk]

Start saving. There may come a time when you want to work on your own projects. And it would be awesome to be financially independent.

[gamechangr]

There are so many of these threads...you may not get any response...so here's a good one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372573

[king_kerr]

Thanks

[SirLJ]

Start looking into quantitative stock trading systems, invest the time to find a winning strategy + sound risk management and the compound interest will make you a very rich person (reach person = someone who makes more money that he needs to spend without working more than few hours a week if any), I really wish I started 20 years earlier...

[sordidasset]

Any advice on where to look? I majored in finance because I thought this is what I would learn. Instead they told me to trust in DDM. Waste of money.

[oldmancoyote]

Few worthwhile efforts are successful on the first attempt. Failure is just another useful metric giving guidance for the next effort. Guilt has nothing to do with failure.

[sordidasset]

Don't get the finance degree. Everything they teach you will be theory that is literally from the 1950s and has been empirically proven incorrect. Almost all the jobs open to you will require you to be fundamentally dishonest.

Go for a math or CS degree.

[pasbesoin]

Guard your health!

It is the foundation of happiness.

For the young (post-)entrepreneur HN tends to idolize, it is also the basis of your productivity.

[gt2]

Always finish your projects and leave them in some workable state so you have more projects to show or just look back on.

[aregsarkissian]

Don't ever borrow money.

[brudgers]

I am not as smart or as cool as I think I am...or rather, other people are smarter and cooler than I think they are. The women are better looking than I think and it's better to be nicer and kinder.

Good luck.

[bhu1st]

I'd remind myself to set a quantitative and measurable goal every once in a while.

[ankurdhama]

Practice and learn critical thinking using first principles.

[BOOSTERHIDROGEN]

any books suggestions?

[ankurdhama]

try "think fast and slow"

[shambolicfrolic]

Don't count on the world being as advertised.

[fujvvvv]

Workout daily.

[cm2012]

Be more thoughtful to my wife.

[MichaelBurge]

Get started now.

[tmnvix]

You are not too old.

[daimajia]

Buy Bitcoin！haha