July 19, 2020

Originally wrote this for my friend who just graduated.

Setting Up Life Foundations

Exercise

Try out all kinds of sports (fencing, bouldering, tennis, swimming, parkour, karate, etc), find your favorites and develop the love for exercise for life (but don't go so far and hurt yourself).

Mentors

Find those that you respect and who you want to be, research them, reach out, ask actionable advice, turn those advice into action, update them, ask for more advice. Most people will want to help those who turned their help into fruition, and those who are so eager to grow.

Find your 5 best friends

Especially in college where people are for the most part, pure, trusting and don't have conflict of interest with each other. It's cliche but you are the average of your closest five.

Set up finances

Pay it forward