What's a Thing a Teenager can NOW do to Help Them Out Once They Turn 18?
Am I the Genius?
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | What's a thing that a teenager can do now to help them out once they turn 18? |
| 0:05.0 | The sooner you get a good routine, the better. |
| 0:08.0 | So I'd say learn to take care of your teeth and don't forget to floss. |
| 0:11.0 | It's easy to look over flossing and not do it, but it's so important and future you will thank you. |
| 0:17.0 | Traffic rules. Please take them the frick seriously. Most of us drive like idiots until our first |
| 0:23.8 | major accident, and you'd better pray it's not curtains for you when that happens. Don't drive like |
| 0:28.9 | a 12-year-old playing GTA-5, don't drive if you're drinking, and wear your fricking seatbelt. Wear it. |
| 0:40.9 | Don't be afraid to make mistakes, but don't risk mistakes that will severely compromise the rest of your life. What I see across cultures and countries |
| 0:45.6 | is an enormous pressure to be perfect, so high that nobody can possibly ever meet the pressure. |
| 0:51.3 | So people make mistakes, as they should, but the problem is that the pressure |
| 0:54.9 | to be perfect makes all mistakes seem the same. Risk losing some money, risk making relationship |
| 1:00.4 | mistakes, risk losing friends, risk losing a year, those things are fine. Don't risk six figures |
| 1:06.5 | of debt, which means students without a degree or a good major or a good GPA to show for it. |
| 1:12.1 | College is a great investment if you also put the time and effort in to succeed. |
| 1:15.9 | You shouldn't risk disease, don't risk death, don't risk pregnancy, don't risk substance |
| 1:21.0 | addiction. Do not risk a felony conviction. Take the kinds of risks your 25-year-old self |
| 1:26.4 | will laugh about. Don't take the kind of risks your 25-year-old self will laugh about. Don't take the kind of |
| 1:28.8 | risks your 25-year-old self will curse you for saddling them with. Be social, but remember, |
| 1:35.1 | friends will come and go. Don't invest in people that won't invest in you. Get ready for your |
| 1:39.9 | friend's circle to shrink by half or more. And that's okay because your adult friends will hopefully |
| 1:45.1 | be much healthier and happier for you than your teenage friends. Smoking. I started with SIGs |
| 1:51.6 | so that I could take breaks from work in construction. I'm 27 now and I can't quit vaping. This |
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