Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I want to give some real world advice for high school and college students.

This right here is going to be your game plan for

mastering life. As I study the principles of psychology, self-help, and success.

And as I've been doing this for the last five or ten years,

I've been keeping a running list of all the most important

principles that I wish I knew when I was younger.

When I was back in high school or in college or even in middle school. Like what kind of habits could I have established, what kind of things do I wish my parents and my teachers told me,

what kind of things do I wish I actually did that would have set the entire foundation for my future.

And so I've been keeping this list in my back of my mind and now I want to share some of that

with you. This is the advice I wish I got. Let me lay out the stakes for you if you're

in high school and your college. This right now is your only opportunity really to build a solid

foundation for creating an amazing fulfilling life. Right now, you've got about eight years, four years in high school, and four years in college.

And chances are, you've already pissed away some number of those years into doing stupid stuff.

Now you've got less than eight years left.

What's going to happen after that is you're going to get kicked out of your family, kicked out of the nest, you got to go into the workforce,

and you're going to be working eight hours a day, and you're going to be commuting a couple

hours a day probably to work. So it's going to be commuting a couple hours a day probably to work.

So it's going to be 10 hours right there

every single weekday that you're going to be putting into work

and you're not going to have any more energy or time

left over from then on to work on yourself, to develop yourself, to lay a foundation for yourself.

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