What would you advice to your 20-year-old self?

Work hard as well as work sharp

The most important advice I'd give to someone of 20 years age would be not to take the advice of others. By that I mean: learn from others; learn from those who have gone before you; learn from your surroundings, your schools, your friends, but ultimately follow your own heart. Happy Birthday!

Listen to your gut. Human makes decisions based on knowledge and feeling. Remember to take both in consideration when making decisions.

I was such a nerd during high school and University and started my first business young, so I'd probably tell myself: live a little.

could be work on my reading and writing skills

get physically and mentally fit don't mess your self in between wrong thing and wrong habits

I'm 20 and in the same boat as you! I think my 8 months into my being 20 I've learnt how important exercise is, I'm already getting a creaky back!

Here's a piece I had written on my 30th birthday. Many people who read could relate to this - https://medium.com/@kapilgadhire... Hope you all enjoy reading this!

"Go with the Flow, don't be too rigid on what and how you'll be happy in life." I always thought I'll be only happy when I'm working on my own thing, which I did but they didn't could not cross the finish line. Then I had few opportunities to work on projects which I could share excitement with but they were not 'mine' to say. This created a mental barrier, between me and the work. Slowly it started hampering my output and we decided that it's working. It took some good time and destroying some good opportunities, until I realised that you gotta be more flexible and find happiness what you have in hand. For example, I recently got this opportunity to build this product 'Boltic', which we are launching tomorrow on PH. I got my energy back, as soon I melted that barrier and went in with all I got. Hope this gives you a perspective, best wishes!

The sooner you start that business, the better. Just take that leap of faith, starting early gives you more time to fail and learn from your failures. There are only two types of business founders: (1) founders who have experience and (2) founders who do not have experience.

Learn to sell, anything. Even if you don't become an entrepreneur, having the skills to sell can work wonders in other areas in life.

Launch something whilst you're at University!

Happy Birthday! 🎁 Trust the process. If things don't work out for you, it's for a reason. Sometimes rejection leads to even better things.

Stay open-minded and try to see things from other people's perspective!

The future wouldn't be as easy as you think gonna be. It would be full of pain, surprises and uncertainties. But at the end they are all worth it and it's your choice to embrace it. So be more open to ideas and possibilities but at the same time listen to yourself more than anyone else. You would be proud of yourself, you always are :)

Whatever you're mainly doing in your daytime (work, school, etc), have your side project. Don't focus on making a lot of money right now, rather, try to use your side project as a source of learning how to sell, building a system, building your own business partners/networking.

Happy birthday! Invest time in figuring out what you want in life. I don't mean pinning down specifics (career, etc.), but rather thinking about what's important to you and what you want your life to look like. Having a vision for your future self will be a big help in making decisions along the way.

The advice which I will give is that right from the very beginning of the career, focus on solving real world problems than to work for organizations with a brand value. Nevertheless, I did inculcate that mindset within myself and now I am part of building Boltic - a no-code Big Data Ops platform which is launching tomorrow on 11th of Feb!

Hi Martina, Thanks for bringing this point. I would advice to start at least 1 business.

@martina_hackbartt In my opinion just read as much as one can, gather more and more knowledge, focus on skills rather running after degree and Buy as many Bitcoins as possible :)