[extropy-chat] youth of today

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From: Al Brooks 

"what would you give as advice to youth, ages 18- 25?:
 
1. take supplements, nootropics at an early age
2. start getting wealthy at an early age. 
3. buy real estate
4. buy precious metals
5. don't get married (hooray) ever. or have children (hooray hooray) ever.
6. avoid parents and all relatives
7. avoid public schools (triple hooray)
8. travel
 
what else can you think of?"

Your list is pretty good Al, but why not make it more extropic?  

My initial list would look like this:

1a. Put aside 10% of your income for yourself and invest it.
1.  Do your best to find peace and joy in life.
2.  Exercise and eat well.  
3.  Write a mission statement for your own life and your future.
4.  Ask several friends who are as objective as possible to review your
mission statement and give you feedback.
5.  Establish a Plan of Action for achieving mission statement goals.
6.  Laugh whenever possible.
7.  Surround yourself with supportive and caring people.
8.  Never stop learning.
9.  Explore the world.

And my extropic list would look like this:

1a. Put aside 10% of your income for yourself and invest it.
1.  Find peace and joy in life!
2.  Continue to perform your best in exercise and work toward fighting the
entropy of aging - physically and mentally.  Establish an exercise routine
that is both aerobic and anerobic and push your limits.  Go to Kronos, get
a full body scan, prepare weekly menus that are designed specifically for
your own body and mind's needs, take designer vitamins, pay attention to
all changes in mind and body and work toward keeping the body flexible and
the mind agile.
3.  Sign up for transhumanist courses and read transhumanist type magazines
and books and prepare a solid mission statement for your life which
includes a trajectory of the next 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 50, 100, etc. years. 
Map the projection with Vensim software.  Produce a behavior over time of
your accomplishments in achieving your life goals.  Develop a full blown
strategic plan for your goals.
4.  Start a feedback group of your peers, colleagues, friends and even
those who do not agree with you, but who you respect, and ask them for
feedback of your mission statement, strategic plan and goals.  Listen
attentively to the feedback.  Rewrite your mission statement and strategic
plan with yoru new insights.  Find a mentor(s) and study his or her
knowledge skills and incorporate them into your own behavior.
5.  Learn how to be proactive, rational, and insightful.
6. Find pleasure in laughing and playing.  Meet people, do things that are
not ordinary to you - challenge yourself.  
7. Develope a set of close friends who you trust and love, a group of peers
who you can enjoy, and a circle of associates that you can learn from and
who will challenge your thinking.
8. Never stop learning.  (especially history and futurism)
9. Travel the world.

 
(Getting married is inconsequential - it is having a partner or partners in
life that is proven to healthy for humans, as well as having children -
bearing them or adopting them.)

Natasha  
 
 


		
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