The teenager's manual

If you’re a teen, still in Highschool, with plenty of free time and energy, I believe you should do the following:

1. Pass your classes with the bare minimum amount of effort required, make time for other activities after school. Yes, you already knew, but school is a waste of time.

2. Build a strong base of muscle and strength, make the gym your second home. Boosting your physicality will massively build your confidence, energy leves, how much others respect you, and how much you respect YOU.

3. Read, a lot. Not entertainment reading, but educational reading. Otherwise, spending 10 hours a day reading novels, or watching movies, is hardly any different. Rather, educate yourself, gain new perspectives on the world. Read. Economics. Maths. Physics. Psychology. Self-improvement.

4. Try many ways of making money: working side-jobs, online businesses/side-hustles, learn monetizable skills, heck, maybe even start your own business or personal brand.

This is the golden era for taking risks, building up your base of confidence; acquiring the base for your mentality, physicality, and intellectuality. This is the time that, if invested, generates life-long returns; and, if wasted, generates life-long confusion.

Going out shouldn’t even be in your radar. Yes, you should still have a social life, but what you shouldn’t do is base 100% of your joy on partying and doing drugs (alcohol counts, too). Those activities should be a sparse complement to your self-development, a momentary relaxation, and not an integral part of your identity.

You can choose to do nothing in your teens, to enjoy this little era of no responsibilities, and pay the consequences later.

Or, you can choose to get ahead, and claim the bounty later.

See you next post!