Hi there you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help

you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 372 10 things I wish I'd known in my 20s. I am currently 42.5-ish, so I'm a decent distance from my 20s, and often happens when we go through life we learn things along the way.

And sometimes we learn things that we so desperately wish we had learned earlier.

Does that negate their value now? No.

Is learning part of the process?

Of course.

But this is a kind of reflection that I find really interesting.

I think we can learn a lot about ourselves

by acknowledging what we have already learned.

So this is good, like middle of the summer energy, so it felt like a great time to take this

you know little detour to share ten things that I wish I had known in my 20s.

So let's jump right in.

Number one, when it comes to adulting, there is rarely a right way. The list of adulting tasks is impossibly long and when I was in my

20s I honestly thought that my job was to find the right way to do all of them.

I read all the magazines so I could copy all the systems

because there wasn't much of an internet

in the beginning of my 20s.

I tried to follow the right cleaning schedule, give the right types of gifts and

tips to various service professionals. I didn't even really know that you were

supposed to do that. I thought we should have a certain amount of money in savings

and invest in this particular way and prepare for the future the way that that one

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