10 Harsh Truths I Wish I Knew in My 20s

0:00I'm going to tell you something right now that's going to stay with you for the rest of the day.

0:04Every single thing you're currently stressed about, the career you're trying to build, the relationship you're trying to figure out, the body you're trying to fix, the money you're trying to make, the person you're trying to become, every single one of those things is being shaped right now by a set of invisible beliefs you've never examined.

0:24Beliefs you didn't choose.

0:26Beliefs you absorbed from your parents, your culture, your school, your feed.

0:31Beliefs that feel like truth because you've never held them up to the light and asked, wait, who told me this?

0:38And were they right?

0:39I know people who spend the entirety of their 20s operating on beliefs that weren't theirs.

0:46They were inherited software and that inherited software cost them years.

0:51Not months, years.

0:53Years of chasing things they didn't actually want, years of avoiding things they desperately needed.

0:59Years of measuring their life against a scorecard that they didn't build.