Poll: If you could travel back in time to when you started, what is the one tip you would give yourself?
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Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
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No tip Nov 5

I wouldn't give myself advice, but a reassuring talk: "Don't worry, you will do just fine."

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Becca Resnik
Dan Lucas
Diana Llorente
ipv
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Philippe Etienne
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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No tip Nov 5

As much as some may want to, we cannot go back in time. So, it’s a useless waste of time…

Peter Simon
Robert Rietvelt
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Nikolay Novitskiy
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Start buying gold. Nov 6

Saving money would definitelly be not an option. But buying gold?.. Yes! That could have been the most wisest tip for myself.

Rabie El Magdouli
 
Gianni Pastore
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"Buy Google shares Nov 6

if you want to retire at 45 yo"

Rabie El Magdouli
Zea_Mays
 
Edith van der Have
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None of these Nov 6

I took into account all of these tips at the time.

Philippe Etienne
 
Edith van der Have
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Bitcoin Nov 6

Nikolay Novitskiy wrote:

Saving money would definitelly be not an option. But buying gold?.. Yes! That could have been the most wisest tip for myself.

I think you would have earned more with bitcoins


Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Rabie El Magdouli
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Ceci n’est pas une tip (evoking René Magritte) Nov 6

Without reducing everything to luck and failing to recognise the importance of merit, I can't help but acknowledge the importance of being in the right place at the right time. In life, a lot happens by chance and a door opens when you least expect it...

Philippe Etienne
Lieven Malaise
Rachel Waddington
Yuri Toledo
neilmac
expressisverbis
Michele Fauble
 
Lieven Malaise
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Life Nov 6

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

Without reducing everything to luck and failing to recognise the importance of merit, I can't help but acknowledge the importance of being in the right place at the right time. In life, a lot happens by chance and a door opens when you least expect it...


This is close to my philosophy of life: with every door that closes a new one opens.


neilmac
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Rachel Waddington
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No 'one tip' Nov 6

There is no 'one tip'.

Also, I don't always do the things I know I ought to be doing now, so what chance would I have convincing my past self to be better?


Sean O'Byrne
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Kevin Fulton
 
Oliver Pekelharing
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Learn to touch type Nov 7

I would have earned a lot more (or had a lot more free time) if I had been able to type with more than about four fingers and without looking at the keyboard.

 
Novian Cahyadi
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Fortune-telling Nov 11

If I could travel back in time, then shouldn't I be making a buck out of a fortune-telling business? My predictions would always be accurate because I already know what would happen. Politicians and CEOs from all nations would come to me, asking for some advice. They'd all be under my thumb, allowing me to assume control over politics and economy, and even attempt a world domination. And while I'm at it, I might as well establish my own religion.

Dr.-Evil

Just a thought.

[Edited at 2024-11-12 12:40 GMT]


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