“Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don’t always know what for.” - Jan Houtema
Another great answer on Quora that young people should take note because in the first 30 years of your life you make your habits, and then your habits make you:
Between 16 and about 30, life gives us incredible energy. After that, we have less energy and less time. As Franklin said, “Do ye love life? Then do not waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” You see, one of the great lessons of Western Civ is to delay gratification in hopes of a better reward down the road. Hence, the many compelling time-wasters of our day (mindless internet surfing, video games, texting, endless social media use, porn, bad relationships etc.,) –these are all a slow drip of poison for the life you hope to have. You can never get back those many hours wasted.
What should one do instead? Read, study and build skills. Listen to old people. Hone your ability to concentrate. You are now in the ‘habit-forming’ time of your life, that will carry forward for many years. Guard your integrity: your word, the quality of your friendships, the interests you allow yourself. Be fully in the moment; life is more interesting that way.
Brain-building - If you can’t concentrate and read a book for a few hours, work on it anyway. Until at least the age of 25, the brain is still developing its habits. Starve its craving for the video games you play, and feed its ability to focus on books or a study topic. This gets much easier with practice.







