Advice for someone who just turned 18? Things you wish you knew?

watch your diet ASAP and never let yourself get even skinny fat

Don't isolate yourself into a bubble.
We're here to help you reach your goals, but those goals should be to live a productive and healthy life, not to impress us.

>>41967518
PROTEIN, PROTEIN, PROTEIN

I wasted literally years of potential progress by not getting enough protein and not watching my diet.

All you need to gain muscle mass is .7g/kg body mass, regardless of calories (unless you are doing something stupid like -1000 a day). Get at least 8 hours of sleep a day.

Work out consistently, don't overtrain, its not worth injuring yourself to squeeze out one more rep that will literally make no difference to your progress in the long run.

>>41967518
Don't lift for girls. In fact, don't do anything solely for girls. Do it for yourself

Make a mental image of where you want to be in 10 years. Doesn't need to be overly specific, but keep it realistic.

From now until then, every decision you make should directly, or indirectly, help you achieve that image.

>>41967518
Leave 4chan and never look back

>>41967518
Keep alcohol to an absolute minimum.

>>41967518
yeah, learn to post your little advice bullshit on the right board, idiot. fuck off, immature brat.

>>>/adv/

Always have goals and strive for something. Settling for mediocre will ruin you.

>>41967559
What are some easy ways to get protein in that are also low calorie? (not including protein powder)
I dont think I've been getting enough protein

>>41967582
Seconded. I'm 20 and interning in corporate IT right now and whenever I look around I see people who settled in life left and right.

I'll make it simple:

!) Always lift
2) Get a high GPA in school
3) Find internships in school
4) Build a 5 year plan for short, medium and long term goals
5) Build strong social networks - a man is defined by the strength of these relationships and his worth in society

GL homie. Leave this place and try not to get sucked into it.

>>41967587
fish
salmon, tuna, sardines, etc
canned or not its got shit tons of protein and low amounts of calories
just watch out for the mercury on some

>>41967518
>Go to school
Get you BA/BS at the very least of learn a trade. I didn't go to school until later in life when I started hanging out with educated people. After that I pushed through all the way to my MA which I finished last year. It's really boosted my career.

>Don't drink
Alcohol is poison and I wish I knew that. Society makes it seem so cool and fun but it's destroying our livers and mental health. Drink some fucking water

>Your body is just like a car
You can't floor that mother fucker. Sometimes that means lifting lighter to preserve your joints.

>Marriage
Don't get married until you are at least 27. Don't have a baby out of wedlock. Don't date someone below your standards. Marriage is very much a business deal.

>Wearing a suit
White shirts command authority. Don't buy any other color.... maybe light blue on casual friday.

Good luck faggot

lift & shitpost on /fit/ til u finally gather the courage to kys

Use this website, it has made food management easy as shit.

https://cronometer.com/

Make custom entries for stuff you eat every day or consistently.
It should be part of the sticky, honestly.

>>41967518
If you're at uni, focus on the job you're going to get, not just on finishing your degree
Have a part time job, but study comes first.

HIT THE GYM
GET A PROPER ROUTINE
BE CONSISTENT
TRACK LIFTS
EAT ENOUGH, INCLUDING PROTEIN

>>41967518

Don't marry until you're 30. Spend your 20s on getting money.
Don't stop lifting.
Stop drinking soda.
Stop paying attention to the news. Let other people pay attention. You can't change anything about it and its information millions of other people already know. Which makes it not valuable.
Stop using shampoo and body wash. Your skin maintains a balance of oils for a reason.
Stop going to clubs. They're traps where beta men maintain the hunting grounds of 8-10/10s

Your idea of what life is all about is going to change. Remember how much your mentality changed from being a toddler to now? That shit happens from 18 - late 20s

Don't do hallucinogens until you're 25-27. Let your neurology settle a bit.


Practice intermittent fasting. Practice intermittent fasting. Practice intermittent fasting. It makes weight regulation a lot easier.

Never underestimate people. We have a clearly public example in Trump. The deviousness of people will only become more apparent the longer you live.

Refrain of thinking yourself as a good or bad man. The longer you live, the more reversals of values you experience.

>>41967622
>>Don't date someone below your standards.

Very good advice. With women, what you see is what you get. If she's fat, assume she'll ignore any plea to lose it.

>>41967518
Avoid 4 year colleges/uni like the plague unless you have a very specific goal in mind. If you're a directionless fuckwit like 90% of millenials become a laser technician or something, be smart about your finances and become a millionaire.

don't do psychadelics or recreational drugs other than alcohol and weed. they are underwhelming and not worth the shit you will find yourself in.

Find a healthy activity or sport to lift for. Powerlifting counts if you actually compete.

>>41967718

CONT.

Donate blood every 8 weeks. Americans have elevated levels of iron because it's enriched in most bread products. Problem is that too much iron helps facilitate pathogen production. It's why bleeding and leeches was effective in the Medieval age.

Eat a high-fat high-protein diet without worrying about calories. This would mean avoiding bread as well. You auto-regulate on a keto diet. You've never tasted flavor until the adaptation period is gone and you sink your teeth into bacon and eggs.

>>41967739

Psychedelics are fun as shit, what the fuck are you talking about?

Okay so here's the thing. If you're extroverted, it helps to have a calm patient introvert with you during the trip. Also wait until after 25-27.

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I really enjoy these types of threads, posting some things

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>>41967767

Learn to see objects only for what their use is to you. Detach yourself completely from any emotions you might have towards an object, no matter how expensive, pretty, nice, or rare it might be.

Keep the amount of objects you have to only the minimum of things that you actually use, don't have uneccessary shit collecting dust in a corner.

Learn about meditation and "being present to the moment."

Detach yourself from negative emotions, they are useless. For example, don't get angry over petty shit. If something that actually requires you to do something about it, don't become angry or sad about it, just decide on a course of actions to take and follow it.

Work without hope or despair. The highs and the lows are all part of the same journey, stick to building good habits, don't try to do good things out of "motivation."

>>41967518
1) stop being a sad cunt and start being a sick cunt.

2) be the machine gun rather than the sniper rifle. you take more shots, you have more misses, but you make a lot more hits. the sniper rifle spends ages waiting for one shot, if he misses chances are his opportunity is gone for another long wait.

>>41967689
its mentioned in the site linked in the sticky

>>41967781
"I really don't think being attractive is as hard as some people think. Yes, you may never be a model, but there are plenty of things the vast majority of "normal" people can control that will work wonders.

1. Don't be fat. Be a healthy weight, work out, be in shape. You are now better than the majority of the population in America.

2. Hygiene! Smell nice, be clean, use proper skin care (control your skin through external care *and* diet), don't have smelly breath, etc.

3. Male or female, learn how to dress yourself, style your hair and (if applicable) do your makeup. It's not difficult and that shit goes a long way.

4. Have a decent personality. Don't be an asshole, don't be a dumbass, don't be a "nice guy", don't be overly conflict prone, just be a decent human being with a decent personality.

All those things are 100% controllable. And while some may say that your personality isn't under your control - you're right, maybe certain shit, but it's pretty easy to know not to be rude or mean or stupid or annoying."

Get the diet in check. No seriously like gyno and low t from phyto-estrogens in our food and plastics are no joke.

>>41967781
Vrb throwing or my winter coats I haven't worn in 6months

>>41967518
Oldfag here, 41.

>1. Save up $3000 and invest it in the stock market.
I say $3000 because that tends to be the minimum for most major investment companies, i.e. Edward Jones. I did this when I was 22 and now have around $600,000 in savings just from that investment. Saving $3000 sounds like a shitload at your age but it's easier than you think, just apply your mind to saving for a bigger cause.

>if you are dating the girl of your dreams, don't marry her until you're at least 25

>do heavy compound lifts, light isolation lifts, and cardio at least twice a week

>eating low carb not zero carb is best. As in only eating meat/ eggs with either veggies or fruit is best for all lifting goals

>other than whey and creatine monohydrate and caffeine, if a supplement is legal it probably doesn't work

>steroids aren't nearly as harmful as you've been told, but like marriage you should wait until you're at least 25 to use them

>squats really are the best exercise

>>41967559
>PROTEIN, PROTEIN, PROTEIN
why is this better than simply getting as much fiber and calories as possible? genuinely curious

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>>41967877
>I did this when I was 22 and now have around $600,000 in savings just from that investment

how the fuck?

what company did you go through?

>>41967877
>1. Save up $3000 and invest it in the stock market.
21fag here, is the stock market really worth getting into? I feel like I'd just get robbed blind at this age.

>>41967518
Get your diet on point and stick to it, your gains and your life will be infinitely better. Drink more water, half of your life problems can be fixed by that alone.

Don't smoke anything. Not a god damned thing.

Drink rarely and only in moderation, no matter how many people call you a lightweight or tease you for not drinking.

Staying in may be fun for a while, but you WILL get lonely. Unless you're a diagnosed schizoid, your brain needs interaction with people elsewise it will start to figuratively eat itself. Build a social network or find a social hobby, even if it's something like Magic or a fucking book club. You need some small group of people in your life - not tons of friends, but close ones who share the things you like.

Do something artsy with your free time: paint, write, or compose music. This way you'll always have something you can say that you made that no one else ever has or ever could. People still swell with jealousy when I tell them I've published two books.

>>41967890

Because there's a lot of various different protein that's just shoved under the macro label.

Proteins are highly specialized machines that need to be either pre-built or use other specialized machines as building blocks.

Calorimetry is fucking inaccurate
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4060216/

Just eat high-fat high-protein. It's easy to undereat because your actual "fullness" signal activates.

>>41967907
Not that guy but the stock market has averaged an 8% return every year since forever, even if you invested in 2007 and invested through the recession you'd still have huge returns

>>41967925
thanks. I already eat decent-protein, low-fat and fail to see how I can improve on that; traditional sources like red meat have cholesterol and fat. most of my protein+fat comes in the form of omega-6 and amino acids via mushrooms and skyr

>>41967718
I feel like you're a smart guy.
Anyway, I'm 6'1, 170~ lbs, and I can't gain weight.
By saying that, I know of course that I CAN gain weight, if I eat enough, but the problem is, that I have a very low appetite, and I have to constantly eat if I don't want to be a hungry skeleton.

I used to be 6'1 140~ lbs, which was my normal weight, and then I started working out and learned about eating right, but for me, it's a hassle just to eat at maintenance.
I have never been able to eat an entire pizza by myself, because I get stuffed halfway through, and have to force myself to eat any more.

I did at some point get up to 185 lbs, and I looked really great, but I had to eat at least 6 meals a day, had to eat until I was stuffed and then some, it was really fucking hard.

How do I fix this?

>>41967571
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>>41967948

Low-fat is a government meme. Literally.

As I said, after "adapting" (2-3 days) to a high-fat diet , you find a level of pure hedonistic pleasure in meat and fish and oils. And you'll find that after a point, you get a full signal.

It's far harder to jam past the full signal and eat 'till you're bloated than it is to block the signal and not be satisfied until you reach your stomach's limit.

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>>41967955
food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtcovtMbV8E
containers
https://www.amazon.com/Certified-BPA-Free-Reusable-Microwavable-Containers/dp/B0128YT76S/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1498710085&sr=8-5&keywords=food+prep+containers
PROFIT???

>>41967877

Why are squats so good?

And what are the true negative effects of steroids?

>>41967955

Nuts and butter and eggs. High density high fat high protein.

Eat it as 1 big meal (or 2) of the day. You, ideally, want to have a regular period of 12 hours where you don't eat anything.

Think of your body as having two states. One is the fed state. Your body is prioritizing getting stuff from what you ate. The other would be fasting. Your body is now focused on cellular garbage collecting and the purging of damaged cells.

Anywhere from 8-12 hours after last meal.

It's like why meth heads look like complete shit. They never sleep and block melatonin via bright blue lights (electronics). The release of melatonin activates some skin repair processes and garbage collection.

So meth heads are living examples of why blocking melatonin is a bad idea.

>>41967986
interdasting. I eat enough unsaturated fat to survive and not be skelly, but can't see any reason to consciously consume more fat than whatever is in, e.g., 2 thick spreads of peanut butter or a pint of almonds. the only nutrient that seems to be worth paying any attention to is fiber.

trying to make microbiota and consistency-of-shit gains with the least paying attention to numbers possible. grains, produce, and legumes really do seem like the holy trinity of food

>>41967823
Do you have a list of foods to avoid?

>>41967518
Don't fall for the Student Loan Jew. Also, don't skip workouts, and don't start drinking every weekend. I went from being ripped in high school to being a fat fuck in college to getting my shit together and back into shape while trying to establish my career.

Also, don't forget to open a 401k and put as much in their as your employer will match, or more.

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>>41968107
>tfw already fell for the student loan meme
>even worse it was for a shitty 8 month program at a private school
>15k
>cant find work

Run and lift on the same day.

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>>41968193

It's okay. I once knew this lesbian who pissed away $200,000 of loans on cocaine and is now a secretary atm.

If she can live, so can you.

>>41968243
Sounds like the average commenter on Ask A Manager

>>41968243
Jesus what an idiot. 100% of my loan went to tuition.

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>>41967518
Lift for your anime girlfriend and nothing else.
Only way to make it.

-Do not neglect your body, keep lifting and play other sports
-Take calculated risks
-Travel
-If you're an introvert or shy guy force yourself to get out there and talk to people, getting a job as a waiter is good for practice
-You can play videogames but do it in moderation.
-Fix your teeth

>>41967900
I bought into cattle when the Atkins Diet blew up in the early 2000's and some houses after the 2008 crash. Where there's fear there's money.

>>41967907
The stock market is pretty much a guarantee of constant income on your investment. People read stories and see movies where people become instant millionaires from investing a little money in the stock market but it doesn't work that way. You can either keep your money in a bank account and that's all the money you have, or you keep it in stocks or free market and gain a small but steady income from it, and that encourages you to save more because the more money you have the more money you make.

>>41968031
Squats are the best full body exercise aside from dead lifts. What is more basic that picking up a heavy amount of weight and then standing up with it? It works your entire body and being a guy that naturally has chicken legs, squats are the only lift that fixed that.

Being good at a video game sounds a lot less impressive than telling someone you can play an instrument, or know how to ice skate etc. Really wish I could take back those thousands of hours wasted on the xbox and pc.

>>41968522
This.
I may have hundreds of thousands of kills across all the multiplayer games I've played but I've gained nothing from them.
Sure the times I played with friends were fun but nowhere near the time investment to justify such a waste of a hobby,

>>41968522
>>41968554
100% agree

my Health teacher in hs called video games
"The Destroyers of America"
Now I realize how right he was.
I play my 3ds casually about once a week, but damn being addicted spending >6 hours a day is manchild level, don't do it and give it up if you do. Literally nothing productive comes out of video games.

>>41967559
is that protein formula per day or week?

>>41968522
>>41968554
I'm currently addicted to WoW.
I play on this private Vanilla server with 1:1 exp.
I ''waste'' about 8 hours a day playing it, however I made myself an ultimatum when I started, that every second I'm playing, an audio-cd with Japanese has to be playing in the background at the same time. (I'm studying law in Uni, gonna focus on Japanese relations when I'm finished)
So far I've progressed immensely, and I wouldn't have been able to do that if I wasn't also gaming.

At the moment I have summer vacation until semester starts back up the 10th august, and for the last 3 weeks after my exam, I was bored as fuck, so for me, gaming works out perfectly.

>>41968774
which server

>>41968779
Elysium

>>41967562
No, do lift for girls. Don't focus on how huge you can become, focus on how aesthetic you can become or else you'll find yourself 5 years from now wondering why you're fat strong and all your lean friends are getting head by a different girl each week.

>>41968774
Audio CD with a language learning format? What do you recommend? I've got a MA in American History and I need a second language to enter most history PhD programs.

>>41968801
Japanese is difficult because it's a completely different way of thinking than western languages.
Spanish, German, French etc wouldn't be that hard, because they are constructed very similarly to English.
I'm uisng the CD's from Genki books 1 and 2 for all the basics, which amounts to about 30 hours of vocabulary, nouns, basic conversations etc. (You can easily find and download both the books and Audio-CD's for free)

>>41968387
>fiz your teeth
how

>>41967518
If you're not sure if you want to go to college, don't go your first year out of high school. Try a bunch of different jobs and see if you find something you like, and if you don't find something then sign up for a post-secondary education

>>41969016
brush

>>41969016
also dental work

get an engineering degree. i don't care if your dreams are to be a tap dancer or whatever dumb shit. learn calculus. get an engineering degree. if you do this you will be eternally grateful to a random stranger on the internet.

>>41967522
this
im 28 now but this 500 cal deficit is so slow. maybe i'll be lean coming to 30 year old. wish i stay lean or at least dont get fat in your early 20s

>>41967518
>move, train, do things
the little things you do consistently are the ones that really matter in the long run
>talk to people,
never asume you are inferior or better than anyone you meet... people are much people-ish than you think no matter CEO or bum image. women are people too and you should talk to them in the same way
>stay away from sugar,
and that includes all the carbs, oats, potatoes, bread, rice... fuck all of that... more than 100g of carbs is always tooooooo muuuuucchhhhh
>do not take yourself or anyone seriously
shit happens - deal with it
> learn to not be anxious
fear is only there to help you as an animal, which you are no longer. If you can not do naything about the things you are anxious about than stop wory about it - its out of your control, but if you can do ANYTHIG - do it and go on

>>41967553
Moralfag ruining the meme.

practice discipline

>>41967900
>>41967907
>how the fuck?
Compounding interest over a long period of time. Investing money is definitely worth it, and you don't have to pick volatile high-risk high-reward stocks - index funds are a great, safe and most importantly EASY investment. The stock market grows on average 10% a year (and has done so for the past 100 years) so a decent index fund will realistically grow 7-8% a year.

>>41967800
1) is crucial, fake it till you make it

>>41968774
Ive been learning Japanese (and living in greater tokyo) nearly 3 years. I did the same thing as you with the audio books and vidya, really learned nill tho. Youre going to have to put a lot more willpower into learning than some voice in the background, sorry to say.

>>41967518
starting learning something ASAP and stick to it, because you will get a master in 10 years and a grandmaster in 30.

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>>41967518
Avoid alcohol. I used to drink like a fish and it killed my gains. Killed them, killed them, killed them. I put in so much hard work and actually got weaker due to drinking, which was incredibly shameful to me. Now I very rarely have alcohol and gain all the time

Regardless of how much of a sperg,autist,fat neet, some girl is gonna wanna fuck you. Unless she is absolutely revolting bang her.

Don't let fake ideas of pride or morality stop you from having sex. I could have banged a 10 but she had a boyfriend so me being a moral fag didn't have sex with her. She then had sex with some other dude and is still with her BF.

Don't cuck yourself for "honour"

>>41969477
This is bad advice. When I was younger i fucked up friendships because I thought that way. Laying pipe on people's girlfriends gets around, and even when you don't know the bf, people trust you less if they know you've done it. I have friends who to this day act weird when I am friendly with their girlfriends. There's tons of pussy out there. Don't do shady shit to get it.

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>>41969477
Nice lol

Think long term about everything
Be patient
Stability is important for a happy and successful life
Don't hate yourself for things you can't change
Don't worry about things that are outside your control
Never stop learning

>>41969477

>Think with your dick

Terrible advice.

Yes by all means bang chicks on holiday etc. Don't bang girls from your office just because the option is there, don't fuck your friend's gf just because she's a slut. There are three billon women in the world.

Fuck smart.

>>41967877
20yo guy here, i have around 2k$ saved up - is there something i should read about investments and the stock market? i don't want to just sit on my money
originally i wanted to buy a car or a computer, but i don't really want to just blow it on X.

>>41967577
bitter

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>>41967942
>>41968471
>The stock market is pretty much a guarantee of constant income on your investment.
holy fucking shit
do not listen to this financial advice
do not listen to this financial advice
do not listen to this financial advice

>>41967518
life doesnt get better

>>41970221
start by reading a few books
I recommend
>Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
>Margin of Safety
>The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor

This will teach you basics about evaluating companies for value.
Especially once you adjust for inflation, you'll find that the stock market does not give you consistent, reliable returns.
ESPECIALLY once you adjust for the fact that you will be doing this as an amateur without the resources or man-hours of a hedge fund (not all hedge funds pull yearly profits, by the way).

as a rough rule of thumb, you should be keeping about a third of your portfolio long, a third of your portfolio short, and a third of your portfolio in cash at any given time.

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>>41967518
work on your mental health like your diet

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>>41967577

Lookit dis salty sperg

>>41967518
Eat. Fucking. Food.
I stagnated for months at a time because I didnt get enough caloried (and protein in my body) You simply WONT get stronger if you don't eat surplus. If you feel you're stagnating, download a calorie tracker and check your needed calories per day, then make sure to eat past that EVERY day and sleep 8 hours

>>41967518
29 here.

Things I wish I knew at 18:
>don't waste money on anime VHS tapes and costuming. You will never have more fun money than you do right now working a job and having zero bills. You'll know what to do with that money in five years (for me, it was musical instruments)
>30 year old actors aren't ripped because middle age is a magic time when people get muscles easy, idiot, so work out now while you're testosterone is through the roof and recovery is easy
>do a strength program first, then worry about hypertrophy splits; don't waste five years of your twenties lifting bitch weight and accomplishing nothing
>always wear a condom when you fuck strange. Always. Always.
>stick to people your age, younger isn't worth it

>>41969567
someone explain this image to me

>>41967562
>>41968789
The answer is to lift for more than one reason, friends. Lift for girls and yourself. Lift to be the best person you can. Lift to be strong to protect others. Lift to fit into old clothes so you won't have to buy new ones. Lift for a good life.

>>41970510
This. Gains mean nothing if you're too depressed to appreciate them.

Read Spivak's Calculus. You can definitely manage working through at least a good bit of it at your age regardless of your math background, and you'll get an early start with material enabling you to better understand the nature of human logic in its purest form. The kind of reasoning this will help you to develop, you may guess, is going to be pivotal in your life.

If I could go back 4 years and tell my 18 year old self one thing, it'd be that, along with the idea that there's nothing more rewarding than building skills to shape your personal world into a better one.

>>41967518
have goals - seperate your goals into physical, mental, emotional, work and social.
physical is shit like lifting
mental is shit you're learning
emotional is what you're aiming for, i.e. inner peace, with achieveable short term goals, i.e. not snap at anybody, not get anxiety/deal with anxiety better etc.
work is career.
social is pretty straightfoward, dating, family, friends etc.

you should know what you prioritize each as. and it may change with time. but as a rule, most of your goals depend on money. and therefore work should be most important. you may think otherwise though.

keep a diary. i keep an encrypted work document in my dropbox that i write in twice a year, outlining how much progress ive made towards my goals, straightening out my thoughts and writing down new goals.
also write in it during times of stress/crisis, so you can straighten out your thoughts and help yourself through it.

also set some values, having a strong core belief system, whether its christian, conservative, liberal, whatever. have them, understand why you have them (not merely parrot somebody else) and you'll always have an idea of whats going on.

>>41967622
>white shirts
b-b-but what about my pit sweat?

>>41967877
18 here, invested about $2k into cryptocurrencies and turned it into $5k within 3 weeks, and then made a greedy trade so it's now at $900 :(

>>41970779
so you lost 1.1k

>>41968522
>>41968653
i dont.

its taught me to think critically.
if youve ever played any MMORPG you know that there's a lot of calculating, factoring unknowns, organizing people and performance under stress.

nothing in the real world can offer that form of training.
from casual games like tera to a two week learning curve with EVE online, I've learned how to assimilate informaiton and deal with uncertainty.

games like ROTMG teach you the value of restraint, the danger of greed and how to make long term plans.
and shit like minecraft lets you develop spatial reasoning and creativity.

so long as you dont get suckered into believing its the only thing you're good at. its fine to game provided you're learning something from it.

>>41970779
you're not investing. you're swing trading.

Get laid asap if you haven't already. Almost 22 and I have so many regrets

>>41967877
I'm 20 and dating the girl of my dreams, why should I wait so long?

>>41971008
I'm 22. However I'll chip in.

The girl of my dreams when I was 10, was different to when I was 15, was different to when I was 20.

Point is make sure they are a person you can actually love forever.

>>41967518
>time under tension
>control the eccentric
>muscles can't read numbers on plates
>diet is everything
>begin every workout with squats. If you're on a split, go heavy on leg day, light every other day.

>>41970853
>calculating easy shit unless youre the person making the dps calculators

>organizing people is easy in mmos LMAO

>performance under stress in something that doesnt matter

>you are autistic if you think nothing in the real world can offer that form of training

>rotmg value of restraint danger greed AHAHAHAH wtf u talkin out of ur ass

>challanger in league yeah cool im good at decision making and shit but i coulda learnt it doing something else.

>>41971008
Because there's a lot of things about both you and her that are going to change in the next 10 years that you aren't going to be able to plan for, and marriage could lead to a lot of self denial and backwards logic on part of both of you through these periods of change, not to mention that if you're male the only real benefit to you from marriage comes if you want kids and you probably don't want kids this early

>>41967612
I'm not OP but I'm in a similar situation.Can you give some tips on building a social network ?

>>41967622
But alcohol makes me more social and I can make friends when I am social.

>>41967518
don't fall for the one, just don't

>>41971102
Actually you hit the nail on the head there, we've talked about kids and she wants them a few years earlier than I do, so thank you for that advice.

>>41967518
If you want a girlfriend, fix your career. Get proper education and a job.

See, I'm 22 - when I try to get a gf my age i am fucked, because any guy at the age of 26/27 will already have finished studying and will have a good paying job.
Naturally he will be so much more interesting and appealing. Literally no chance against such a guy.

I could be done with studying by now if I didn't slack around so much. When I finished HS I was 17.
That is my fault and I could be much further in life than I am.

>>41971230
True. I get attention from younger girls like 18-19 but there's no interest in dating them. Most girls my age are with established older guys. I'm starting my career next summer though so hopefully the tables will turn. $20 an hour at 22 is not too bad

>>41967877
18 at the moment. Got around 5k in savings. How do I get into investing? I'm a total noob at that but it seems interesting.

>>41971282
The moment you have something stable as job, your own place and car etc you will be in a whole different bracket.
And yeah, dating 18 yo girls is the exact same problem as the other direction: they are even more immature than you (you as in described by me) - the difference is even bigger.

Godspeed anon

>>41968722
Per day, I go with 2g/kg bodyweight, just to be sure to overshoot within my caloric goals

About to turn 30 soon. At 18 my life was complete shit. Was an incel kissless virgin NEET with nothing going for me. Now i have a 10/10 career, gf, banged lots of girls, good social life and fit body. It gets better man, just drop things holding you back like weed and vidya etc. you know what they are

>>41971417
Yeah it's why I don't even bother with dating at the moment. I just concentrate on my education and networking. Keep it up too bro, we're all gonna make it

>>41967657
nice

>>41970510
Biggest medicine for mental health, no porn, no fapping. guaranteed

>Focus on building yourself up
>Dont go out of your way to find/please a woman necause bitches come and go but you time is precious
>Start investing now!

>>41971076
Why begin every workout with squats?
Anon did you fall for the ss meme?

>>41971076
>muscles can't read numbers on plates
Yeah, but they can react to progressive overload, which is best achieved by increasing weights.
Insanely stupid think you said there.

>>41967518

Workout, be active. Lift always. Always be moving.

>>41967518

I'm 28, I'll be 29 by the end of the year. Here are a few things I've picked up in my twenties.

>if you want to join the military do it at 18 or do it after you get your degree. Before or after, not in between. It just delays the whole fucking process.

>Watch your diet. Avoid excessive sugar. It really influences the way you feel.

>Do not date strippers. Do not date cosmetologists. You're better than that.

>I took salsa and bachata in my mid twenties and it increases social worth and self confidence dramatically. I wish I had started sooner. Plus if you have a thing for latinas like me, you'll never hit a dry spell.

>Reach out to family more. I'm still working on this.

>Attack your goals

>>41967518
read the sticky
lurk
get your protons
sleep
repeat

Put yourself in places where international people are. Make friends with as many foreign people as possible.

Go to the doctor. Get checkups even if you feel fine. Make sure it's the same doctor.

Keep the family close, unless they're assholes then cut them out completely.

>>41967726
2 year college for technical certificate, fast tracked into avionics department of worldwide company
Get something vocational not this gay uni bs unless you wanna be something that 100% requires it

>>41967765
Not the guy you replied to buy psyches gave me HPPD and ruined my military career before it started. Drugs will always be around. Your career might not.

>>41974365
>Do not date cosmetologists.

Why not? I feel like she will teach my about skin care.

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>>41968471
>being a guy that naturally has chicken legs, squats are the only lift that fixed that.
What about a guy who has thunderthighs, will squats still explode my legs?

>>41974504
No, but if you've never done them before they could explode your knees and lower back if you're not careful.

Watch your back, anon... And knees. Watch those too. Form is TWENTY times more important on this excercise than any other, as doing them wrong will not only cause poor gains like other excercises, but it will BREAK YOU too.

If you do it correctly you're gonna see good gains though, it's a great excercise when done correctly.

>>41969150
KETO senpai

>>41967522
yup this. all i did was drink, eat ramen and play video games through college = body wrecked upon graduation. now i'm playing catch-up at the gym with my chunky dad bod.

my advice: do fun shit/go on adventures. yes obviously workout weekly, but mix that shit up: hiking, martial arts, surfing/snowboarding, go on vacations, do pottery, just do whatever the fuck you find mildly interesting. T. cliche live life get them real-world experience gainz you'll be so much happier than the meatheads who jail themselves into a life of lifting and instagram.

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Find out what you want to do now. Don't say "ohhh I figure it out later in life".

TIME IS FUCKING TICKING, KID.
It's been 6 years since I graduated high school and almost everyone I went to hs with are done with their degrees, starting their new careers, getting married, having kids, and buying homes.


And all I'm doing is still sitting around figuring out life while jerking off and feeling like a fucking lonely loser.

>>41967518
Cut bad people out of your life right away.

>>41974501
lmao clueless

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>>41968522
this. i cringe whenever i see pic related in my steam library

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Learning how to deal with failure is far more important than learning how to deal with success, because let's face it, the more you try, the often you'll experience failure- and it's going to hurt. Then again, avoiding pain is no way to live, so there's no choice but to man up.

>>41974830
>5199 hrs

noob

>>41968522
Vidya are fine, it's just most people don't know how to play responsibly and they waste countless hours. Same is true for TV when it comes to Baby Boomers

>>41974542
>tfw just turned 19 and NEET

This thread has opened my eyes, i'm starting Uni later this year and I don't give a fuck what anyone has to say about loans because at this point I just wanna be a normal person like everyone else, i'm sick of laying around playing vidya and doing fuck all, it's eating at me, slowly. I just want something to be proud of. I even stopped lifting because I fucked my back up a few months ago but I plan on starting again in about 2 weeks

>>41967587
pork tenderloin

where I live it's basically free ($4/400g), and has a stunning protein content to price ratio

>>41967518

If your job has any sort of 401k matching benefit, take full advantage of it. It's free money.

>>41974540
Everyone should understand the importance of real world experience gainz

pick things up and put them down


dont be short

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>>41974873
LEARN
CALCULUS
GET
3.5+ GPA
STUDY
HARD
GET
ENGINEERING
DEGREE

>>41967518
Stop playing videogames if you are.
I'm not telling you to quit entirely, but vidya shouldn't be something you do for more than a couple hours a week, do productive shit that'll help you in life instead.

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>>41974885
Whats the catch?

>>41967518
Wash your dishes as soon as you're done eating. A huge pile of dirty dishes is way worse than a couple of dishes every day.

>>41974830
can u teach me how to play dota 2

I'm sick of cs

>>41967518
Never indulge in self pity, be tough on yourself.

Accept challenges even if you no you will fail. Getting up after fucking up builds character.

Never skip a workout. Drunk, hungover, tired, always push yourself in training, it will spill over into your character.

Don't try to be a hopeless romantic. Not all women are sluts. Be yourself. Let people see who you are. Trying to be something you're not in front of others will always be noticed. People respect a person who stands up for what they believe in and who they are.

Read books. Read anything that you find remotely interesting. Reading calms the mind and makes you contemplate subjects.

Be comfortable when you're alone. The sooner you become independent from your basic Facebook social needs, the easier you will be as company to others.

Get enough sleep.

Wear sunscreen.

>>41974947
> Not all women are sluts.

Pfffft hahaha
AHAHAHAHAHSDTJSEILJCSWSFIYE

>>41974947
cringe

>>41974925
The catch is that you have to keep working for the same company for a long period of time. Employers don't like training someone to use their systems and then watching them jump ship for a better offer somewhere else.

>>41974947
This is all pretty much on point. I'd add a few things though.

If you're still getting acne regularly, see a dermatologist. Don't wait. They can put you on Accutane and fix your skin, which will boost your confidence and success with women.

Learn to dress well. Not full /fa/ streetwear mode, just a few nice items in neutral colors that you can mix and match.

Learn a skill. Get a better haircut. Give up games, they're a distraction. Don't become one of those bitter guys who hates all women.

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1. Start using steroids (just test in the beginning)
2. LISS Cardio everyday
3. Vegetables daily
4. Less protein powder, more chicken
5. Eat 100% clean
6. You only need to lift 2x a week to get a great physique, esp with roids
7. If you want to compete in bodybuilding you'll have to lift more obviously
8. You need a strength base
9. Only bulk 20lbs at a time and cut
10. Stop watching porn
11. Don't waste your money on useless shit
12. Don't go to college
13. No alcohol. Ever. This separates the winners and the losers.
14. Whole milk while bulking, no milk while cutting

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>>41967518
Train hard and become as jacked as you can as quickly as you can, everything is better when your more jacked.

Take advantage of your youth, make as many friends, meet as many girls ect as possible.

Always take big chances socially and dont be afraid to force yourself to be extremely outgoing, because desu at that age it really doest matter if you fail. Go for the hottest girl, if that doesn't work go for the next hottest girl, ect.

You wanna set yourself up with as many options as you can at this age because b4 you know it you'll be out of school, in your mid 20s, with a career thinking about the rest of your life. And believe me at that age it ain't fun to be alone, without meaning, ect.

>>41970452
Can someone refute or explain what this anon is saying? Why is it a bad idea?

>>41975077

i can tell this was written by some 'alpha powerlifter' who is seriously overweight and a redneck

if you're on roids, lift every fucking day

go to fucking college

eating clean vs IIFYM makes no difference

>>41967518
If you're going to be natty, don't ever fucking bulk. Bulking for natties is a fucking meme. Slowly increase your caloric intake, but don't overshoot it by 500 calories a day or some retarded shit like that. If you really want to eat a shit ton of food and gain muscle, then just hop on fucking test and dbol or tren already.

>>41974485

Ouch. How young are you? What military, US? If you're(or if you were) military US, the way to turn your discharge, into an honorable, is make a claim with the VA about disorders brought about by the military.

You have tinnitus. You have migraines. You have erectile dysfunction. You have extreme social anxiety.
>Wait no I don't...

You fucking do now. Read up on the symptoms and keep a consistent story through a paper trail of doctor and psych visits.

As soon as VA approves claim, file something that states to the effect that your drug use was in response to the symptomology of your ailments. Unlike a VA claim, you might want to consult a specialist attorney.

PS: Never take psychs without Gatorade or Pediatric Fluid on hand. Water, salt, and sugar in a single package is a lifesaver on the more intense parts of the trip.

>>41975178
CONT.

>But that sounds like taking advantage of the system.

You know what the funny thing is? You help other veterans, with more severe injuries and disabilities, get their claim approved. In the same way that prior law seems to be important in civic court.

You know what it's like to see two gay fitness trainers get 100% while a guy missing a fucking arm gets 40%? The system is fucked so take advantage of it.

>>41975091
Fucking this! I hate myself for starting to get my shit together only after 26

>>41975242

It's okay. As long as you don't have kids, you're cool on the age you get shit together.

I didn't get my shit together 'till 31. But I also plain to beat muscle wastage by keeping a consistent pattern of exercise. I

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I'm 23 so I know I'm still kinda young, but I already feel like an old fuck.

I have no idea what I want to do with my life. I thought about going into accounting, but I hated it. I then went into marketing but then left because I realized how much of a shit degree it was. My advisers told me that I should go into HR, but from what I've read on /biz/, HR seems like a shitty field thats filled with retired Stacys.

Yeah like I said I know I'm still kinda young, but, at what age is it too late to turn your life around?

>>41967767
>how to be a boring pseud
Sad

>>41975323
Consider looking into trade schools. Look for blue collar professions that are in demand and have higher than average pay in your state compared to the country, then go in. Try to focus on schools that have actual contact with professionals in the field and let you work under them for a while, it'll make your apprenticeship smoother and help pave the way for your journeyman. Never too late to turn shit around.

>>41967518
You gotta want it.

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>>41967518
Don't go to college. At least a four year school. Go to a 2 year tech school and get a comfy job that pays 50k out of the gate and graduate with only maybe 10k in debt. Get fit now so you don't have to worry about it in your mid 20's when you have even less time. Stop drinking soda. Only spend money with cash. If you haven't already, get a long term gf, must be wife material. You are running out time.

>>41975348
I like being boring honestly. I feel a lot better now that I don't feel like I have to keep proving things to everybody. I just do my things and that's it

I'm 18 myself, going to uni by October. Set goals for yourself, have a idea of what you will be doing in 5 years or so, build up education and a career from that.

I would also excersize regualy (I go the gym 4 days a week) it is a great way to relax and possibly form connections.

Keep in touch with people, connections get you places also read often so you will keep up your mental health.

>>41970647
Since this is a helpful thread

There are 3 micronutrients, as displayed by the 3 way split. The top is the best source since they don't have a lot random shit that is bad for you. If you are starting to think about dieting log it in MFP, you will see it will tell you when something has a high about of sugar or any other thing that should be low in your diet. The green ones are more focused with vitamins and things that are good in a diet. So if you are starting, aim for these when you eat and you will feel the difference

>>41967612
> 5 year plan

communism hate triggered

>>41967622

>Good luck faggot
>faggot

>he can't even control his language

Good luck, iI hope you get your life together some day

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>>41975323
>I'm 23 so I know I'm still kinda young, but I already feel like an old fuck

>>41975377
The awful part is the pseudo intellectual position towards what he knows. He values what he knows for how they make him seem smarter to the layman: the definition of a pseud-shitter.

"Read the canon, memorize star formation, memorize countries and facts, etc.. so that you can use them to look more intelligent, but do not drum your intelligence."
"A good bookshelf makes you SEEM more learned."
Why not BE more learned? Why should you strive to look intelligent rather than be intelligent? Then why should knowing matter?

With his lover, he says just have some hobbies to seem like you're more interesting than you are. Also so people can buy into you and your lover. Is your lover just a part of a social mask?

Boringness presented on the surface is perfectly fine, so long as you're more. A person who's truly boring is a waste of life. He's still just about looking good to others, which I seriously hope you don't think about too often. How will you become the Superman then?

Damn...so much wisdom in this thread, as 30yo going on 31 it makes me feel bad that I'm only just starting to get my shit together, especially with regards to career and women.

Really the only things I can be proud of so far is that I didn't get fat and don't have any illegitimate children. I need to step up my social and financial game like a mofo though, and fast.

>>41975323

You are literally me. Studied accounting and it was dull as fuck. Joined the police force and will think about a degree later.

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i'm going into 8th grade next year. any advice or tips?

>>41974934
sure senpai
as long as you're a qt grill

>>41975323
>but, at what age is it too late to turn your life around?

It's never too late unless you develop something like diabetes or rare genetic disorder shit. Just do some research on shit that might catch up with age. Take zinc for example. Our machinery for uptaking zinc starts really sucking at middle age, after a cumulative effect of the machinery slightly sucking over time. So take a fucking zinc supplement.


Most of society mimics the behavior patterns of aging. Which generally means degradation into a sack of shit. Disability and weakness is presented as some inevitable curse, as opposed to the cumulative effects of a lifestyle where you lose muscle and gain fat over time.

Don't mimic society. Imagine that at the age of 60 you have some form of wealth and either a sex doll OR some tight SEA chick pussy.

>HR seems like a shitty field thats filled with retired Stacys.

HR is a scam to pump up diversity quotas. I'm sure you'd get a job as a transgender transracial Bantu.

As a white male...ha ha ha ha ha. You're useless unless you're in the C-Suite.

>I'm 23 so I know I'm still kinda young, but I already feel like an old fuck.

You know what. Volunteer at a nursing home for a day or weekend or whatever. You will not get better motivation to stay fit and aware. Seeing people dying a slow pathetic death of years woke me a bit. Retirement kills people way faster than working.

>>41975553

Shut the fuck up you're a fucking kid you don't know shit. Either do your social networking bullshit or shut up.

>>41975946
>Really the only things I can be proud of so far is that I didn't get fat and don't have any illegitimate children.

Those are major things to be proud of. Nothing kills the soul of a man like being chained to a bitch who has free license to whore it up but make you pay the tab.

>>41976018
Hop on hgh as soon as possible. Cruise on 200mg/wk test while you do this.

>>41975109

Nothing in the stock market is 100% guaranteed. Even the pros lose money sometimes.

That being said, however, the overall long term trend of the stock market is "up". The longer of a period of time you have (i.e. you're an 18 year old kid and you'd like to be independently wealthy when you're old) then a solid stock portfolio is a good way to go. Two solid strategies to keep in mind:

1. Diversify. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. I wouldn't even buy individual stocks, just go for mutual funds and stuff like that. If you have no idea where to start, buy a S&P 500 Index fund. If the S&P 500 is losing money, then chances are everybody else is too.

2. Dollar cost averaging. Don't try to "day trade". You will lose. Just set an amount you're going to save every month. 100$ or whatever. If the price is high, you'll buy fewer shares for 100$, and if the price is low you'll buy more shares for 100$. It will average out over time.

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>>41974428

>>41967571
strongly disagree. just stay away from pure shitposting and ignore the negativiteit. I reached some of my greatest personal accomplishments through help from here. Lots of guys are in the same noat and just as insecure.

As for OP:
read a lot
>How to make friends and influence people
>How to make friends and influence people
>How to make friends and influence people
changed my life for the better, more than anything else in my life

>>41967518
rap music

>>41967955
eat peanuts and drink milk eveywhere you go

any tips on hygiene?

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i'm 19 and do nothing but sit on a computer all day and gym
>no friends
what do i even do with my life?
I don't want to get too old before it's too late
I also don't have a sex drive

>>41976639
GET OFF THE FUCKING COMPUTER AND GO DO SHIT. YOU'LL REGRET IT IF YOU DON'T

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>>41967518
DO NOT DATE YOUR COWORKERS

I REPEAT, DO NOT DATE YOUR COWORKERS. THAT'S LIKE SHITTING WHERE YOU EAT

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How do I get out of a mental plateau?

>>41976664
but what do I do?
i'm completely clueless in the real world
I grew up avoiding people and playing video games all day every day because I was extremely insecure and depressed
i'm on an SSRI now and don't have depression anymore, but i'm still clueless as can be

>>41976639

Do Air Force for 4 years and then leave and collect the benefits. The VA is fantastic in that you can call your doctor up and ask him to put an order for tests that would normally be thousands of dollars out of pocket.

The VA also ensures no matter what, you're not sleeping in the streets. It's a safety cord.

Plus you would be able to say "Hey doc, can your order some tests for test level kthxplzbye".

>>41976714

Try a different diet. Try keto.

Think of your past experience as a continual series of cognitive frames. Ever see something in your past where you wish you could punch through reality and crinkle the moment up like trash?

It's a nice perspective that allows you to realize that if you don't care for your time and attention, other people will gladly trash it with bullshit.

Get tested for ADD/ADHD and get a stimulant. The trick is that once you use it, you have to enact the behavior you want to become more automatic. Or else you'll waste it jacking off for 4 hours. Dopamine isn't a pleasure chemical, although it does activate chains of shit that produce pleasure. It's a behavior reinforcement chemical.

>>41976736

You're 19. It's okay. As long as you're keeping /fit/ and avoid stripper baby syndrome, you're alright.

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>you deserve to be happy
coming from a shit childhood and teenage years, i was more comfortable being miserable and staying inside than trying to be happy. took me untill i was 28 that i started telling myself its ok to be happy and i still have to remind myself from time to tiem

>>41976773
CONT.

>>41976600

Stop using soap and shampoo for showers. If the cosmetic industry had but one throat, I'd choke it to death. That shit fucks up your skin over time and anecdotally, speeds up male pattern baldness.

At most, only use soap (in the shower) for stinky arm pits and groin.

>>41976639
charaf?

>>41967518
If a girl has all guy friends because "they are less drama" do not date that hoe.

Get into a roth IRA as fast as you can, invest in your body mind and future

>>41967518
Dont join the army, also out of these jobs...
>dairy farming
>dry stock
>infantry
>logger
>warehouse manager
>plasterer
Plastering was the best, get a trade that you can do when youre over 30.

Also dont ever spend more then 10k on a car in your life.

>>41976639
forget sex. Youll ruin your life if you spend your 20s chasing pussy. Get yourself a trade, youre at the age when your body isnt fucked, you can actually do physical shit. Now go get a blue collar job and worry about women once you have a house and a trade.

>>41976639
>>41976773
Seconding Air Force

Went from a Comp Sci dropout to doing cyber security with the AF. Now making 6 figures at 24 when most people I know are barly scraping by still. Not even for the benefits the AF is having a hardcore cyber push at this moment, and has really good schools if you pick the right job. 3D1X2 -> 1B4X1 is the best path for skills but you will probably never do it anyway.

>>41976813
I joined the infantry at 24 and wish I wouldve done it at 18. Make money, be super fit, fuck hoes, learn courtesy, learn practical skills, collect benefits, maybe be a ranger or some shit, go to war, then get out and go to school for free and fuck hoes and if people wont think your wierd because youve seen combat

>>41976863
I'm >>41976773

Guess what I fucking chose? Fucking submarines in the navy.

Never do submarines. Never do submarines. Never do submarines.

It's a fucking trap. Do you like working harder than 95% of the navy? Do you like standing watch more than 95% of the navy? Do you like being paid the same as some dude on a cruiser who does a fourth of the work that a normal submariner is supposed to do each day?

If you're an E-3, you get an extra $75 a month. I honestly can't believe officers looked at that pay chart and thought it would be sufficient.

:^) = submarine officers and command

Want to know the worst part? I had other choices. "Logistics Specialist" "Cryptologic Linguist", etc.

99 ASVAB and I chose submarines. Fuck my shit up senpai.

>>41967718
>don't do hallucinogens
My ass m8

If you're getting acne breakouts figure out whats causing it immediately. For me it was dairy so avoid dairy proteins at all costs. No whey, no cheese, no milk, butter is fine.

>>41976904
CONT

Going back to $75 a month...submarine food is fucking awful. But they take your food stipend away for the submarine galley.

So you can eat food from a box labeled "NOT FIT FOR CALIFORNIA PENAL SYSTEM".

Everything about submarines is fucking terrible.

>>41976890
>learn courtesy
Explain

>>41976927
>>41976904
I was gonna ask "don't subs get a bonus?"

Holy fuck it's only $75 a month?

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>>41967518
Save your money and don't be stupid.

>22
>single
>no debt, college in its entirety covered
>27,000$ in savings

I worked as soon as I got out of high school with only a month of downtime. Always to work some kind of job. The more u work now the less you have to later.

I'm going for an Associates in CNC Tool Technology

>>41969146
Engineering is always the superior choice

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>>41974830
lads

>>41976799
but what should I use? I can't do nothing with my hair right? I am using bars of soap instead of liquid, is that any netter?

>>41976971

You get the equivalent of jack shit until you reach chief.

Even then...fucking why? The american submarine force is a good demonstration between technically competent monkeys and monkeys with an actual life strategy.

People, smarter than me in various ways, get wedded to these shitty systems as opposed to getting the fuck out. The entire rear end of a submarine is crawling with nuclear technicians. Most of these guys could be making fucking bank after getting out. But they don't see life as a game where they can direct resources towards a strategy and make tactical moves.

They're just used to filling out the homework proficiently and checking gauges.

That might be a bit unfair but I hope I've communicated a sensible point. With all the downsides of submarines, it's a terrible fucking deal. But there are technically competent monkeys who will swallow bad deals because they're not really thinking about their life.

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>>41974989
:thinking: dumb af fuccboi niqqa

>>41967518
Aight senpai:
1. Take care of yourself

2. Don't get fat

3. Don't put shit off. If it needs to be done (work, health, social stuff), put it on your fucking calendar. Schedule that shit. Procrastination is the hell that you create for yourself and the only one you can blame for it is yourself.

4. Stay in school, if you can help it. If you have a direction you want to go, get after it, and stay after it. Make it your mission and stay on it, but reassess every 3-6 months or so. Maybe even just stay in part time and keep progressing. Alternatively...

5. Don't stay pressured to stay in school. If it's not your life plan or if you don't feel you're working towards something, get out of it. Go do something else. Work. Try new things. There's tons of time to figure it out and lots of work experience that you can get is still progression you can put on a resume. No one gives a shit if you finish your 4 year degree a few years later than the rest of your classmates.

6. Don't settle with women. Enjoy yourself. Don't get married till after 30. You have time for this. You might get lonely, but that loneliness you feel while single will feel heavenly once you've been in a shitty relationship or marriage and you finally get out of it.

7. There's nothing wrong with compartmentalizing friends. You may have your ride-or-die or soulmate, but no one is gonna meet you on every level. You may have a beer friend, a game friend, and a movie friend. These things are fine, no friend is universal.

8. Feel free to break these rules. It's life, you only get one, and sometimes lessons are best learned first-hand. Even the easy ones.

>>41977026

Water. Water. Water. You use soap for pits stinky from actual physical exertion.

>what about my hair?

What about accelerating the onset of male pattern baldness?

btw for anyone who was fat growing up, benzotropine for the hyperhidrosis. When I got skinny, I still sweated like a fat man. Used to bring 3 sets of clothing to the gym. Now I pop 2 tablets and I sweat like a normal person.

>>41967518
Don't worry about anything but a quick 15-30 minute workout a day and eating mostly healthily until you get a decent job. Until then you're wasting time and money. Focus on school and learning your first job.

Also, network. Collect acquaintances like Pokemon. Email them if you happen upon something related to what you talked about earlier. No one get jobs in this country anymore without knowing someone.

The biggest mistake I made was not taking care of myself. Working too hard, not relaxing, not going to doctor/dentist enough, pushing too hard in gym, etc. Slow and steady. Avoid mistakes before you look for wins.

>>41977028
That's people though. Some are cogs, but some realize there is simply more.

I've worked in a call center where agents have worked for 20-30 years. Some people just *never* think of the possibility of having MORE for themselves.

I became a supervisor because that mindset is just baffling to me. I need more out of life. Many of them could do the same. Not sure what holds them back though. Tried to figure it out when I was placed in charge of a group of functioning autists. I think it's a mix of fear and poor self-esteem, plus an inability to be flexible in their thinking.

>>41977056
benztropine*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzatropine

I'd imagine benzotropine would really fuck you up

>>41967570
God this so much.
Always have your goal/purpose in mind. This keeps you from getting distracted.
Every action, thought, emotion that I allow myself to flirt with, I think to myself, what would I like to be at 30? I'm trying to limit stimuli which may steer me off path, whether it's bad food, negative thoughts or even just indulging in media that may introduce alternative concepts.

>>41967577
>>>/autism/

>>41969819
stirnerposting is best meme

has anyone here read the The Karamazov Brothers? seems very based but also very difficult

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more book recommendations pls

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>>41977304

>>41977275
i actually just started reading it. i don't have much valuable input other than that

oh also its Brothers Karamazov, not Karamazov Brothers

>>41974934
Go on to the /d2g/ on /vg/.

Ignore most posts as they're heavy shitposting and waifufagging, but pay attention to the links at the beginning of every general.

Purge generally has great introductory videos, but they might be outdated considering the game mechanics have changed A LOT since he made them while Dota 2 was in beta.

General advice:
>Learn to last hit.
>Learn when to roam.
>Learn the strengths and weaknesses of every hero. (In fact, fuck around in bot games until you have played every hero and have a general understanding of what each of them does.)
>BUY FUCKING WARDS IF YOU ARE A SUPPORT

>>41967518
No matter how great she might seem, DO NOT think, for one second, that your first gf is "the one".

DON'T FUCKING DO IT.

Im too poor for the gym. Does that mean I have to give up?

>>41977304
I like how every book I was required to read in high school is on that list

>>41977275

Stick with it. Take your time. Its very hard to penetrate but the dialogue and events are fairly straightforward.

One thing I regret not doing was writing notes. Instead, I let the thought swim in my mind; some getting lost or under utilized.

>>41967518
If you are starting college soon learn how to handle your shit on your own as fast as possible.
Learn how to cook healthy/simple meals, learn how to wash and iron your laundry etc. (your mom will be glad to teach you these things)
Learn how to time manage. Plan your days out as much as possible and stick with it.
This goes for everything from going to classes, to prepping meals and going to the gym and especially for going to social events/parties.
If you plan your days out it's very much possible to get 8 hours of sleep, go to the gym, do great on all your classes and still have a lot of fun.
The people who tell you you will need to make sacrifices somewhere are the ones who can't concentrate on studying for 5 minutes without checking their snap and Instagram.
Be open and approach people, it will never be this easy to make friends in your life again.
If you struggle with making friends join some kind of club or activity. Some type of team sport would be ideal but go with whatever floats your boat, just become active and participate.

Oh yeah and don't do drugs and keep drinking to once per week max.

>Things you wish you knew?
your mom

A lesson I learned the hard way is that even if both sides of your family have rockstar levels of hair save for one uncle, you still may go bald early. I started balding at 21, now I wished I was more outgoing in college and got in shape earlier. Do that, fuck girls, find love. Do cool shit motherfucker. Cause you may look like a lame old man sooner than you think!

>>41977275
In the process of reading it right now. I'm at the part where Alyosha is at Katarina's place after his finger got bit

>>41967518
being friends with your ex while one of you hasn't moved on is literally the worst fucking idea any person can ever have.

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>>41974830
>>41977019
I want my hours back

Being honest in all aspects of your life is one of the best things you can do for yourself and those around you.

>>41968089
www.anabolicmen.com

>>41967577
wow man. What did you let get under your skint today?

>>41979769
Oh shit. This is me. Why is this a bad thing? She hasnt gotten over me yet btw.

>>41967518
- do internships in your chosen profession
- if you gonna get a college / university degree, go for it as soon as possible
- avoid quitting your job without having another one
- always be nice, you never know when you meet someone again
- start working out now, the younger you start the easier it will be to stay hot once you get older

Learn and Master Financial Instruments ASAP.

Save up 20k and go. Tastytrade.com Free and better than any fucking seminar on the subject. Don't even need a degree just 2 months of work to get the mechanics down and systematize your earning. Then once you've practiced throwing the chips enough wait for a few big bets.

Never stop reading though.
Fit guys do their fitness e'rry day.
Flexible Guys Stretch e'rry day

Ask for fucking help. All the time. I don't even know where to start is the most heartwarming thing to say to a teacher.

>>41977402
NO.Visit /bwg/ threads , they got lots of information on body weight training.

40 y.o. here, shit I would tell myself at 18 or things I did that paid off

-Never think "that's not me" or "I'm not that kind of person". Be open to new experiences and stepping outside of your comfort zone. Does not apply to things that are self-destructive like smoking, drugs, crime, rawdogging random skanks

-Be smart with money, try to run a surplus. Don't need to grow your own tomatoes or whatever but don't throw it away on bad habits like eating out 4 times a week, rolling over car loans, phone contracts etc. You have not made anything on stocks until they are sold, so don't spend it before then.

-It's cheap for a reason

-To quote the "sunscreen" song, the race is long and in the end, only with yourself. Persistence and consistency is what gives results.

-Even if it's a shitty job, show up on time and don't be a slacker. Builds character, work ethic and positive references that will pay off.

-Education is an investment in yourself, so the employment opportunities it gives you should justify the cost. i.e. don't pay $100k for a degree that only leads to poorly paying or oversaturated fields

-Don't buy anything offered at the door or on the phone. Learn to say no to salesmen, don't let them debate you on arguments but simply go with "I'm not interested in this" or "I don't want to buy anything". Don't be afraid to simply repeat yourself if they persist. "Today only" offers are always scams

-Read some autobiographies for free life lessons on what (not) to do, can also give you insight in how certain industries work which is helpful in your career choices and general development

-Don't fall for fad diets and health crazes. You're just a talking primate and you will do fine with regular exercise and a balanced diet of meat, eggs, dairy and vegetables. If it didn't exist 100 years ago, you probably don't need it

>>41970703

Do lift girls for you only.

>>41974797
Please explain

>>41969150
I did 1300 deficit 3 months
Even got some gainz at the start