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19.01.2022 I am a high school student and a high academic achiever: I am used to getting high results in exams and teachers’ praise. I spend a lot of time studying, and sometimes I feel like I’m not spending enough time being a teenager with my friends and am wasting these years of my life. How can I balance my need to achieve with being able to live in the moment and enjoy life while I’m young? Do I have to sacrifice one for the other or is there another way?

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06.01.2022 What Fiona Wragge wants most for her daughters is for them to be happy and happy within themselves. While she knows many of the challenges they'll face are out of her control, she is determined to give them the skills to navigate the world as resilient women who trust their instincts. "Our favourite saying in this house is 'effort equals reward'," Fiona says. "You put in the effort and you'll be rewarded for that regardless of which sex you are."

04.01.2022 8 pieces of advice every young person should know 1. Fail early and oftentime is your best asset When you are young, your greatest asset is not your talent, no...t your ideas, not your experience, but your time. Time grants you the opportunity to take big risks and make big mistakes. 2. You can’t force friendships There are two types of friends in life: the kind that when you go away for a long time and come back, it feels like nothing’s changed, and the kind that when you go away for a long time and come back, it feels like everything’s changed. Unfortunately, that means you need to be prepared to leave friends behind in various places. 3. You’re not supposed to accomplish all of your goals I’m firmly convinced that the whole point of goals is 80% to get us off our asses and 20% to hit some arbitrary benchmark. The value in any endeavor almost always comes from the process of failing and trying, not in achieving. 4. No one actually knows what the hell they’re doing that's a good thing Almost nobody has any idea what they’re doing in their 20s, and I’m fairly certain that continues further into adulthood. Everyone is just working off of their current best guess. 5. Most people in the world basically want the same things Humans are, by and large, the same. It’s just the details that get shuffled around. This homeland for that homeland. This religion for that religion. Most of the differences that we think are so significant are just by-products of geography and history. They're superficial. 6. The world doesn’t care about you You, me, and everything we do, will one day be forgotten. It will be as if we never existed, even though we did. Nobody will care. Just like right now, almost nobody cares what you actually say or do with your life. 7. The world's not out to get you I’ve been to my fair share of dangerous shit-holes both inside and outside the US. And when given the opportunity, the majority of people are kind and helpful. If there’s one piece of practical advice I would give every young person, regardless of circumstance, it is this: find a way to travel and get to know the people you meet. 8. Surprise... your parents are people too Perhaps the first duty of adulthood true adulthood, not just taxed adulthood is the acknowledgment, acceptance, and (perhaps) forgiveness of your parent’s flaws. They’re people too. They’re doing their best, even though they don’t always know what the best is.

03.01.2022 A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. -Alan Kay, computer scientist (b. 17 May 1940)