What you'll wish you'd known...

I found a very interesting article on the web titled: What You'll Wish You'd Known. It was written by Paul Graham and was meant for a speech he was giving at a High School. Unfortunately, the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite him.


When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students? So I asked them, what do you wish someone had told you in high school? Their answers were remarkably similar. So I'm going to tell you what we all wish someone had told us.

I'll start by telling you something you don't have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life. People are always asking you this, so you think you're supposed to have an answer. But adults ask this mainly as a conversation starter. They want to know what sort of person you are, and this question is just to get you talking. They ask it the way you might poke a hermit crab in a tide pool, to see what it does......Click here for the entire article

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