1) I tell him (myself) to quit going to business school, quit working, and go get a math degree and then go to graduate school instead of waiting until he's older and he's mostly wasted five years doing lame work.
Would you listen? When you were going to business school it looked like a (more) viable choice. It is only now after changed events that the math degree looks more important? How ya doin, btw? Good luck to you!
I would say that business school was the result of inertia; that is, I was doing something, and was sort of afraid of change and doing something else. I knew I needed to get a degree, and so business school just seemed logical. It wasn't a complete waste, of course.
But in the whole context of "what do you want to do with your life?" it was something of a failure; I think I internalized at a young age that math was sort of a pie-in-the-sky discipline and only engineering and science were really useful, and so I discounted it. Come to find out, math is awesome as a career path. :)
I would tell myself to stay away from the Mexican Peso, copper, and silver. I would tell myself to keep the Chrysler that I bought for a couple of bucks a little while longer, and I would tell myself to have had my late, lovely wife to be screened for cancer on a semi-annual basis starting in 1998. Other than that, I would have told myself to get short the entire market when the S&P crossed 1530.
I liked all of yours, although the last is probably impossible.
For me, for years, life made little sense, logically. I kept expecting the thoughts traversing other people's heads to be similar to mine. When I realized they weren't, life made a lot more sense.
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2) Nuthin.
I'm 31.
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When you were going to business school it looked like a (more) viable choice. It is only now after changed events that the math degree looks more important?
How ya doin, btw? Good luck to you!
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But in the whole context of "what do you want to do with your life?" it was something of a failure; I think I internalized at a young age that math was sort of a pie-in-the-sky discipline and only engineering and science were really useful, and so I discounted it. Come to find out, math is awesome as a career path. :)
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2. I would ask him what he dreams about in his life. I would ask him what he is doing to get there.
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C'mon, the temptation to say something would be pretty fierce, you'd be silent?
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For me, for years, life made little sense, logically. I kept expecting the thoughts traversing other people's heads to be similar to mine. When I realized they weren't, life made a lot more sense.
I am talking most directly at you when I recommend reading Krishnamurti.
Start with the Book of Life
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