Another wordor standing in your own way5/31/2023 ![]() Plenty of studies show that regret can be a good thing - when it’s informative and motivating. More often, though, I just beat up on myself (emotionally) for not optimizing all the time that I had to self-discover. I could look back with empathy for myself, acknowledging that my college experience was heavily colored by the anxiety and depression I was struggling with at the time (and by the general alienation I felt within a casually misogynistic campus culture). My biggest regret is not taking better advantage of all the opportunities I had in college. So clearly I can do at least one thing that isn’t described by the word “binge-watching.” 1. After all, I like, wrote this article and stuff. ![]() ![]() Thus, I am also someone who’s done a solid amount of research into finding and synthesizing exactly the kind of data-driven advice that I myself need to hear - and I’ve put those guidelines into practice with some degree of success. And in order to achieve those aspirations, I have to figure out a way to combat both my anxiety and my monumental laziness. You know, the kind who indulges in things like french fries and Netflix and being horizontal and who has to worry about mundanities like bills and the fact that dish level has officially surpassed sink level and now I have to raise the faucet above Plate Mountain just to get a glass of water. However, unlike some of those people, I’m also not totally out of touch with what it’s like to be a normal human being. So feel free take my advice with that rather large grain of salt. I can’t tell you how to get to any of those places because I’ve never been there myself. I’m not a fitness guru, or a billionaire entrepreneur, or a famous actor. First, who I’m not: I am not an outlandishly successful person. Before I proceed to diagnose your life problems, I’d like to begin by telling you who I am and who I am not.
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