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Piece of advice that I would give to anybody in their 20s is the sooner you learn how to not learn every lesson the hard way, the better off you will be. A lot of people would say that I lived a very boring high school and college experience, and honestly, I'm very grateful for it. I didn't graduate high school or college with all these stories of things that happened to me, these negative experiences that I had, because I actively tried to avoid those negative experiences. And the reason I was able to do that was because I use all the people around me to learn lessons that I otherwise would have had to learn on my own. Every single person on the planet is a box of lessons. If you look closely enough at their life, they have gone through numerous amounts of things, things that are probably never even going to happen to you. But it is still very useful to have the information that they learn from those experiences and know how you can apply them to your own situation. Everything from athletics to dating to career path, there are lessons you can learn from all of the people around you, and you can apply them to your own life and make everything significantly significantly easier.
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