It will be quite a wait, but buy Bitcoin as soon as I can.
You wouldn’t even need to buy it if you got in early enough… just leave a spare system mining all day.
Yeah, I guess you’re right. Let the tips keep on coming, so I’m 100% ready when the time comes.
Cry, because I’d have to redo every hard thing I’ve ever done. There are things I’d want to change but none are worth the things I’m incredibly grateful for.
Doing it the second time wouldn’t be that hard I imagine
You think I remember shit about differential equations or calc 3?
There’s also a lot of timing and luck involved. A lot of my big life milestones have been a combination of the things I could control and the right timing of things that weren’t under my control or influence. Things can go differently no matter how perfect you re-do something if the circumstances surrounding it are different. Now if in this hypothetical situation, everything else outside my sphere of influence happens the same way, then yes I would definitely do some things differently.
My middle school and high school years beg to differ lmao
Be nicer to people. Take better care of myself, particularly my teeth. Take the things I did (school, sport) more seriously. Keep enjoying being young, but make a little time to focus on goals. Read more. Invest all my allowance in an index fund (not at all realistic, I know).
I’m the opposite. I spent so much time worrying about school stuff, without realising that it doesn’t matter, what matters is skill and knowledge, not the marks and grades. It would save me so much time
I’d push my body so much harder when it’s young.
When I started cross country as a 13 year old, I just did it because the leader of our crew said we should do it, and I wanted to hang out with my friends. I hated the actual running.
By the end of high school, I’d started to associate a feeling of pride, and also definitely noticed that I felt better after I worked out consistently.
I did zen in my twenties and my discipline got better. Then I turned 30, and my body started getting a little more fragile. And then an interesting thing happened: my motivation, my ability to push with my will, became stronger than my body.
For instance If I sprinted all out, with everything I had, my knees would be in pain for a few days afterward. Or if I ran as long as I wanted to, which could be hours, of which everything after the first 10 minutes was incredibly pleasurable. Pushing as hard as I could against a weight would easily pull a muscle.
And after that moment I’ve had to regulate myself. I don’t get to use my body to the max unless I’m willing to take the sacrifice of an almost certain at least minor injury.
So if I found myself in my six year old body, that is made of rubber and can heal super fast, I’d just enjoy the process of advancing my will into that fresh nervous system, building athletic prowess to match the level of commitment I can give now.
Focus slightly less on school and university and more on life skills - learning to drive much earlier, learning languages, etc. - they had a much bigger impact on my life in the end.
Live in never ending depression knowing that the likelihood that my three children will be born again is slim to none. Tortured every day by the memory of three incredible people who will never exist.
I’d do that and also invest every penny I can get into Microsoft in the 1986 IPO.
Chill the fuck out and do my own thing more.
I would start blasting through school, saving every penny to invest in known companies, get a degree in my current specialty field but start working in it earlier, quit when my investments pay off, retire early and live a completely new life.
Seriously? Commit die.
I’m not doing all this all over again.
Sure there are definitely things I’d like to have done differently but there are other things that I have no idea how I pulled off. One small change at 6 could so radically change my life that I wouldn’t recognize it any more.
And a 35 year old stuck in a 6yr olds body just sounds awful. You would know and understand so much more than your peers, your innocent child’s mind has been replaced with the cynicism of reality…
It would be a living hell.
It would be 8 years at minimum before you could have a meaningful conversation with any peers, and you’d still be “that weird kid” to everyone.
I don’t know how I’d do it, but I wouldn’t be able to deal with it. Just the knowledge that I’d probably never meet my wife and my son would be gone forever would be too much to bear.
Sorry for the downer of a reply.
I agree 100%. Whenever I think about having a chance to go back in time, I always think I’d do it but then I’d start to really think about it and came to the same exact conclusion that you did.
if i keep my brain/knowledge?
get my family very rich obviously, with a commitment to give me my share when i turn 18.
i follow stocks and remember enough of the key moments/companies that this would be easy.
convincing the adults would be the challenge but im sure they’d realize something happened when their 6yo suddenly started pitching stocks from one day to the next.
get my ass to therapy
also buy bitcoin
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Walk in front of a bus.
I did not have a good childhood; not going back there, nossir.
- Dare more with the girls
- study less and more focused on IT development
- start working earlier
- say more often "no"when I should’ve
- say now often "yes"when I should’ve
- Try to have a family a bit earlier
- get out of my parent’s home earlier
Probably end up in serious therapy, or institutionalized. Like, it’d be the the equivalent of my wife and son dying, but without being able to get any emotional support from friends and other family.
This is actually somewhat of a recurring nightmare, for me. A scenario I play over in my head every once in a while that gives me existential dread.
On a related note, “Erased” on Netflix is really good.
And even if you meet the same people, seek them out and form relationships with them, you won’t share the same memories of your relationship together. It won’t be a shared history, except the part you’re together in the new life. And you’ll compare that against the other life. And make little inside jokes without realizing it’s from the wrong life and your partner’s clone will just look at you with a blank look.
