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Prayag Verma | Thursday, November 07, 2013 | No comments

This write-up has got more than 4k views and I have to say thanks to Julien Smith who is the original writer. I loved it like everyone of you, and I wanted to have this written in Medium. I have updated the content to give the credit to the writer at the top too.

Originally posted on: inoveryourhead.net by Julien Smith

The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.
Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. By the time they build the curriculum, it’s likely that the system is outdated– sometimes utterly broken. You both learn and get respect from people worth getting it from by leading and doing, not by following.
Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention. Emerson Spartz taught me this while I was at a Summit Series event. If he reads 2-3 books a week, you can read one.
Connect with everyone, all the time. Be genuine about it. Learn to find something you like in each person, and then speak to that thing.
Don’t waste time being shy. Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true.
If you feel weird about something during a relationship, that’s usually what you end up breaking up over.
Have as much contact as possible with older people. Personally, I met people at Podcamps. My friend Greg, at the age of 13, met his first future employer sitting next to him on a plane. The reason this is so valuable is because people your age don’t usually have the decision-making ability to help you very much. Also they know almost everything you will learn later, so ask them.