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It is difficult to take someone seriously when they introduce themselves by saying something like that. Experiencing life is not a competition, nor is it a valid bragging point. I guess it is good to know that there are some painfully obvious lessons that are not learned by building a company.

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It's difficult to take someone seriously when they emphasize everything with the word fuck.

How else will we know how cool and hip they are?

Indeed, whenever I hear something along those lines, its obvious that I talk to young immature person, who experienced quite a bit in a very narrow part of life, and not much more. Arrogance never helped anybody, did it.

Truly experienced people who properly seen-it-all get a proper dose of humility about themselves, the world and the others. You can really feel it from them. Unlike this kiddo.

I can relate to him. I used to think that adulthood was a permanent state, that I would feel the same age at 30 as I did at 20. That is not the case, I feel exactly the age that I am and I learned just as much in my last ten years as I did in the ten years prior.

People with the mindset of "I'm in my 20s, I know all about the struggles of life" are usually primed for a big kick in the pants by life. I'm saying this as someone in their mid-20s. When I was 22, I used to think I knew what adulthood was like after having to work a 9-5 job and pay rent and buy groceries. Hah, was I wrong. There's such a level of naivete based on using a 2-3 year sample size of living independently to project what the next 40+ years (who actually knows how long) of life will be like. Life always finds a way to throw something new at you, and as people age the accumulation of life experience also expands. There really is no replacement for experience, and it's impossible to say "I know what everything will be like ahead of me" without actually having lived it.

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