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Thirty Observations at Thirty

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Thirty Observations at Thirty published November 30th, 2023 1. Marry well and early: I’ve found that being married makes you far more selfless, a longer term thinker, and if you marry well, you end up absorbing some of your spouse’s best traits. While impossible to perfectly control when you meet your partner, I do think I set myself up well by dating seriously throughout my teenage years and early 20s. This helped me understand the type of relationship that would make me happiest for life, and was mentally prepared for lifetime commitment when I met my wife at 25. 2. It’s always possible to learn: In my early 20s I was surrounded by people only a few years older than me that felt like they had an impossibly better grasp of the world and deeper understanding of a large set of technical fields that I did not. My assumption was that it was far too late for me to catch up, my mental plasticity was waning, and so it was unlikely I could catch up, I needed to have learned more sooner.

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