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by buffaloo 2652 days ago
Learn to be well-rounded and access within yourself a sense of well-being as you use your youthful energy to explore varied interests from which in a few years you will select life-long pursuits. Also, always be kind to others.

Python or JS or technology X will probably be the punchline of a joke about old tech in 5 years, so don’t focus too much on any one thing right now. Play some sport, have a couple really good friends in whom you invest, learn to cook a little, get a dog. Don’t get hung up in life traps like drugs, alcohol, tobacco, teen pregnancy, debt.

At 14, that’s about the best you can do. If you seem to shine much beyond that in some area (eg., you’re a tech millionaire or child actor), it’s probably at a fairly heavy personal cost and not worth it.