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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 28 Jan \ parent \ on: If you could change one thing about your past what would it be? AskSN

i moved around a bit too. I wonder if that's what motivates the kind lies we both told. It's difficult, and formative, to have to make new friends while you're still trying to figure out who you are.

I told myself to justify not doing the things that I wanted to do

I find the worst ones to be these self-psyop ones. One of my big ones was "I don't need to move to a big city to succeed as a founder. I just need to code harder."

"I don't have time" is probably most damaging lie I told myself, and I did it constantly.

One of my personal fables I like to tell is that I wanted to snowboard since I was 12, which is the first time I went, but I told myself I was too old to begin learning.

135 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark OP 28 Jan

"Too old" and "Too late" are definitely some of the worst ones. I used to be under the impression, that if I did anything, I needed to be the best at it.

After I hit my mid to late 20's I missed out on a lot of things because I knew for a fact that I was too old to ever be truly great at quite a lot of things.

Luckily my "mid-life crisis" was centered on fixing myself instead of buying a sports car.

How did the snowboarding work out? Do you still do it?

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 28 Jan

I never did it again. I broke my arm that first season which kind of confirmed my self-deception.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark OP 28 Jan

Hopefully you're able to look back at it and laugh now. There's no point in regretting it, especially if it made you a better person down the road.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 28 Jan

For sure. I'm mostly just happy for the early lesson.