‘You’re Not Lost, You’re Early’ and Other Important Life Lessons

8. You Should Treat Life Like An Experiment

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Your 20s hit you like a fish to the face. It’s not a nice feeling, it’s a shock to the system and it leaves an after taste. The training wheels are off and all of a sudden we are riding the bike, we’re wobbling all over the place and we’re not totally sure where we are going but it seems, somehow that we’re going forward.

Sometimes we stop and look around, that’s when we start to get worried that we’re not doing this right. We might not have our career figured out, we might have 0 savings and we might not know what the right notebook is to take to a meeting.

We feel lost.

If you’re reading this and feel lost, carry on — it might help.

1. You’re Not Lost, You’re Just Early in the Process

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and…