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68 unsolicited tips

This is a translation of the most recent post by Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired magazine, writer, photographer, futurologist.

Today is my birthday. I am 68. I would like to move a rocking chair and give advice to youths. Here are 68 unsolicited tips that I offer to all of you as a birthday present.

  • Learn to learn from those with whom you disagree, or even those who annoy you. Are there any truths in their beliefs?
  • Enthusiasm is equivalent to 25 IQ points.
  • Always demand a deadline. Deadline eliminates the excess and the ordinary. He stops trying to achieve the perfect, so you have to do the unusual. Unusual is better.
  • Do not be afraid to ask a question that may sound silly, because in 99% of cases, others think about the same question, but are too embarrassed to ask it.
  • Listening well is superpowered. As you listen to the one you love, keep asking “What next?” until the end comes.
  • A worthy goal for a year is to learn enough about the subject so that you cannot believe how ignorant you were the year before.
  • Gratitude will reveal all other virtues and you can succeed in it.
  • Treating a person with dinner is so easy and always effective. It is good with old friends and helps to make new ones.
  • Do not trust universal glue.
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