I can share some of my teenage-concerns, current and former, which advice may (or may not?) be appropriate for.
How to decide what to do with my life, if even possible. What makes me happy? What is important to me? Maybe I do not need to attend college to satisfy my interests? What happens if my model for my future is different from my parents’ model of my future?
How to cope with being stuck in high-school, with a limited degree of freedom and mobility, a lack of tolerance for worthless tasks like chores, a largely immature crowd of peers surrounding me, and no IRL friends who are also rationalists
Existential depression: feeling overtly depressed over the realization that life is meaningless, short, etc
Not actually understanding where I fit in intellectually due to conflicting judgments (school performance vs. personal thinking, learning, and interaction)
Most often, the advice I get is to wait for college. The concerns get dismissed because they’re juvenile and temporary in nature. However, I choose to assert the importance of the present.
I can share some of my teenage-concerns, current and former, which advice may (or may not?) be appropriate for.
How to decide what to do with my life, if even possible. What makes me happy? What is important to me? Maybe I do not need to attend college to satisfy my interests? What happens if my model for my future is different from my parents’ model of my future?
How to cope with being stuck in high-school, with a limited degree of freedom and mobility, a lack of tolerance for worthless tasks like chores, a largely immature crowd of peers surrounding me, and no IRL friends who are also rationalists
Existential depression: feeling overtly depressed over the realization that life is meaningless, short, etc
Not actually understanding where I fit in intellectually due to conflicting judgments (school performance vs. personal thinking, learning, and interaction)
Most often, the advice I get is to wait for college. The concerns get dismissed because they’re juvenile and temporary in nature. However, I choose to assert the importance of the present.