📌 Written for everyone about to enter the college entrance exam, and also for our once naive selves.
🎓 01. College is not as important as you think!
The college entrance exam is not the final stop in your life, nor the starting point of success.
It’s just the first exam that leads you to 'systematic selection'.
What truly determines your height is not your exam scores, nor which university you attend, but whether you—have figured out what you are truly pursuing?
Don't be superstitious about the halo of prestigious schools; it’s just the starting point for your game, not a shortcut to the peak of life.
📚 02. The best investment is always in yourself
What you should invest in is never funds or houses, but your own brain and body.
✅ Improve your cognition: Read books, especially history
✅ Train your speaking skills: Watch TED talks, imitate famous speakers
✅ Practice your English: Don't just memorize vocabulary; reciting speeches and reading passages are useful
✅ Stay healthy: Sleep less, eat less junk food, start exercising now
Your physical state determines your future aura.
🎬 03. The ages 19-25 are the critical period for shaping your values
How you view the world at this stage determines how you will live in the future.
I suggest you: Watch the top 100 Oscar films.
Cultural aesthetics, life philosophy, social structure, ethnic conflicts... a movie can offer you far more than entertainment.
📌 (Forrest Gump)(The Shawshank Redemption)(Lawrence of Arabia) ...
It's not movies that teach you success, but they help you understand why people fail.
💰 04. The earlier you learn financial management, the faster you gain freedom
Financial management is not just for the wealthy; it’s a compulsory course for those who want freedom.
From the moment you receive your first living allowance, you should learn:
💸 Monthly bookkeeping
💸 Ask yourself 'Is it worth it?' for every expense
💸 It's not about saving money, but about making money flow
The principal is not important; what matters is whether you can find the slope to 'snowball'.
📉 05. When you're young, dare to lose money; losing early is better than losing late!
Are you afraid of being cheated? Afraid of losing money? Afraid of being farmed?
If you don't jump in once, you'll never know how deep the water is.
Stocks, cryptocurrencies, and even those seemingly 'scam' projects are worth trying.
✅ Losing money is not scary
✅ Not reviewing is what’s scary
✅ True experts are trained through repeated losses
🧠 06. Friend selection criteria: People who can pull you up!
Who you are is not important; what matters is whose circle you are in.
If the people around you are discussing growth, ideals, making money, and entrepreneurship every day, you will naturally be on an upward path.
But if they are playing games, watching Avva, scrolling Douyin, or doing other unproductive things every day...
🚨 Don't blame yourself for not working hard; you've mixed up your circles!
❤️ 07. Passion is the top-tier cheat code
Instead of asking 'What should I do?', first ask yourself: 'What do I truly care about?'
Things you love will give you intrinsic motivation, making you unafraid of hardships and fatigue.
You'll find that all truly impressive people are doing what they love, instead of trying hard to 'act like successful people'.
👪 08. If your parents are mediocre, there’s no need to listen to their life advice
Please always love your parents, but do not blindly follow their 'life experiences'.
Because their cognition may have been outdated for 20 years.
✅ Listen to them talk about being a person
❌ Don't listen to them talk about careers, investments, or choices
That was their era, not your battlefield.
🧘 09. Admitting your ignorance is the fastest way to grow
Don't pretend; ask if you don't understand.
The most foolish young people are those who 'think they understand'.
What you need is not to 'show how great you are', but to dare to say:
"I don't understand this; can you teach me?"
🚀 10. Youth is the biggest asset: Dare to venture!
Don't wait until you're ready; go do it immediately.
Be a little bolder, take more risks, and don't be afraid of failure—
Because your biggest advantage right now is: failure is not a big deal!
📌 Want to shoot a video? Shoot!
📌 Want to do self-media? Write!
📌 Want to start a business? Try!
📌 Want to date? Confess!
Be young, don’t waste your time.
Courage is the best answer you can give to your 18-year-old self.
🔚 The last sentence for you:
Life is not determined by the college entrance exam, but by your daily choices, thoughts, and actions.