for me. i spent college studying for grades and 20s making money in a job I don't like, but never got to make the memories I should've with all my friends. I regret doing all of that
If we are spiralling, let's spiral right
I'll add more, there will be more for sure 😂
We follow this lifestyle because the alternate is worse for most Indians. Its easy to say follow your dreams when you have bills to pay every month end.
usually the people who advise to "follow the dreams" are rich and have no worry about money.
My worst mistake was to not have enough conviction. You need to bend reality to your will. Reality distortion is real and you can influence things.
Steve Jobs once said, “Everything around you that you call life was created by people who were no smarter than you.”
@salt - Not enough conviction was not your mistake. Its always easy to second guess sitting in an arm chair. Those were best decisions made based on info available at that time. If you are a middle class person, who had to get a job at 21 or end as a dependent on parents, fear of losing the job will take precedence over everything.
since you quote steve jobs - i read this somewhere - "every dead body on the top of everest was once a motivated climber. So calm down".
It's okay to calm down and rest but always keep moving and improve 1% everyday.
My biggest mistake was to let her go and pursue this career 💔
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Hubris. Not the smartest, not the most privileged, but got some stellar opportunities that I was too short sighted to appreciate. Got cocky and took unreasonable risks (in hindsight!) Lost a good career, family along the way and at a ripe old age, am starting at the bottom of the pile. Regrets? Yes. A whole lot! Hope? Also yes, conservatively. But the one lesson learnt is that profession is but one aspect of this myriad-hued thing called life. The day it encroaches upon everything else, step back and realise that you are definitely doing something wrong.
Are you sure because the glorification of work as a means to be rich is a mainstream theology.
That's exactly what it is! A mainstream theology. Just ask any retiree about how they feel, especially those who have retired from powerful, even if average paying designations. Their entire life went in an inflated sense of importance, especially tied to their work. Suddenly, they find that it means nothing. And that the other aspects, they perennially ignored or disrespected, were all that mattered.
Ended up joining a large company way too early in my career. It was a dream company almost, but it slowed down my career in those two years and I realized that a large, comfortable company just isn't for me early in my career.
That said, it did give me the confidence that I can work at a great brand, so it was helpful that way.
Good learnings from a smart mistake. Actual definition of explore and exploit.
I am also getting something same feeling, what did you do ? Did u quit or what
/s
[ also hoping to have some responses from people in their 30s & 40s for insights ]
pls don’t say boards dene ki jagah crypto kharidna tha 2014 me🫠
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