# What you'll wish you'd known - It's hard to decide what job you want - You don't learn in high school waht to do with your life - Work forward from promising situations rather than working backwards from a goal: this ensures that you're using your time efficiently! - 'Stay upwind' -\> 'work on hard problems'. Treat school like a day job, work at your passions at night. You're wasting far too much time agonizing and procrastinating anyways. # Start working despite not feeling like it [How to Use the the "2-Minute Rule" to Stop Procrastinating](https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-stop-procrastinating-and-stick-good-habits-using-the-2-minute-rule.html) [Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time \| Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124489) - 'Screw it, let's do it' - Start sloppy - Start small [how do you self study?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057411) [having 'grit'](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23088219) [how to remember what you read](https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/hv5343/how_to_better_remember_what_you_read/): implement some of these strategies !! [Five whys - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys) [A Step by Step Guide to Life Prioritization - Tynan](http://tynan.com/prioritize) [Getting Boxes Done](http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/getting-boxes-done.html) [Ask HN: How do you develop internal motivation? \| Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23550758) # how to do hard things - find something similar to the hard thing but easy - modify the easy thing to have exacly one thing that is hard - do modified thing until it is no longer hard # circle of competence mindset [Understanding your Circle of Competence: How Warren Buffett Avoids Problems -…](https://fs.blog/circle-of-competence/)