Name: I'm 28. Here's How To Get Ahead Of Most 20 Year Olds
Uploaded: 2026-02-27T15:43:25.000Z
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This video is going to piss some people off because it's for a very specific type of person.

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And I'm going to sound extremely inconsiderate to most people, but

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that's the only way that I can get the severity of this situation across.

So with that said, consider the nuance of my normal videos turned off as of right now.

The people who get angry with the brutal honesty that's about to come are often those who have pretty terrible lives.

They haven't grown grown past the age of 20 to 25.

They are the people who have not yet realized that the best way to make the Most of your 20s is to make them your worst.

Because you really only have two options.

The first is to use your 20s to become the person that you were meant to be.

And the second is to repeat the same six months for the rest of your life.

If you don't nearly max out your potential in your 20s, you can simply observe society and, and

see where your life will probably end up.

In essence, you get stuck in this loop of anxiety and overwhelm and you just attempt to live your past peak experiences.

You go to the same bars and the same raves and you play the same video games.

When you turn 20, you start having the best peak experiences of your life because you're old enough to try new things now, but

you haven't yet realized that those should be and are the lowest peaks of your entire life.

And so what happens is people register those as, oh, these are the good days.

And they try to repeat that over and over again.

And when they're not doing that, they crave the peak experience.

They want the euphoria that they associate with happiness, when happiness is not euphoria.

So the result of this is that you just fill your entire life and it becomes your routine to, to engage in these extremely shallow activities that aren't leading to a good life.

You shut your mind off and you're just automatically doing these things and it's very hard to get out of.

Most people plateau around the age of 23.

And then when you start to ask them, like, what are you doing with your life?

In a genuine way, you're asking like, hey, like, what are you doing?

You're just talking with them, what are you doing with your life?

They confidently say that I'm just living life.

Like they, they label what they're doing as living life.

And these People, they haven't come around to the ramifications of staying the same because they don't realize that there's no such thing as staying the same.

There's only you get better or you think you're staying the same, but you're actually just getting worse.

And that worse doesn't show up until years later.

So as you can tell in society, Most people turn 30 to 40 years old with the emotional maturity of a.

The world rapidly pushes forward and it's continuing to push forward even faster while your mind, body, spirit, finances stay in the same place.

When in fact you're just digging them all deeper into this hole.

And the deeper you get into this hole, the light at the top is more difficult to see.

And if you're stuck in this 30 foot deep hole, how are you going to dig yourself out of that?

So the purpose of this video is to show you that your twenties are the tutorial phase.

They're not the main game, they're the preparation, not the main event.

So I just want to give you three traps to avoid and three things to do because I've been in this position, right, I'm talking shit about these people who get stuck and stay the same for six months at a time when I was that person.

And I can confidently say that my life has gotten substantially better than since I made the decision to stop doing that.

So I want to help shine a light of awareness in a way that can shift the beliefs in your mind that allow you to notice new opportunities and change certain aspects of your life so you can continue to get better.

Not in a self improvement, dopamine junkie kind of way, but in a way that makes sense.

If you can set yourself up in your 20s, your quality of life will only continue to increase.

And that's even when your youth is no longer on your side.

So the first trap is don't listen to anyone who doesn't have the life you want.

Because the people who have the life you want are extremely rare.

And the other 99% of people are those who just blabber about how you should live your life when they wasted their own.

And if you listen to them, then you're probably going to waste your life as well.

These are the people where they are adamant on convincing you that, that you should do something in order to live a great life, because that's what they did and they don't know what a good life could have been for them.

They're adamant on convincing you that the greatest things to do are the greatest things that they did.

And those things aren't that great at all.

If you bring them your goals that sound close to impossible, they'll tell you to be more realistic.

They'll tell you to create a budget, they'll tell you to invest your measly savings, they'll tell you to go out and, and

have fun and make the most of your 20s when they have no idea what making the most of your 20s means.

And then they will tell you that during that time to set yourself up in this boring mechanical life through a thing called a job, doing work you hate until you turn 50.

As if that's some like, twisted rite of passage, right?

That that's all they're focused on because they have this industrial mindset.

It's like, okay, you need to go to school, get a job, because that's what your grandpa and great grandpa and great, great, great grandpa did.

And they don't is changing career paths and that you can actually do something different.

So when you go and you take that to them, they.

It puts them into survival mode because they're afraid that you aren't going to survive.

Many people say they want the best for you, but

in reality they just don't want to feel inferior to you.

you should give yourself permission to ignore most of what these people say.

You can entertain the thought, but don't let it into your mind.

You need to do your own independent research and you need to actively search for the less than 1% of the population that have the life you want.

you eventually need to take the best parts of the people who have the life you want and, and

you need to turn it into your own through trial and error.

Now, the second trap is to get your taste of distractions fast.

Because most people treat their youth as a currency instead of investment capital.

They party and they smoke and they watch Netflix at night and they just lounge around all day.

And those things aren't necessarily bad, and

they aren't the end of the world in and of themselves, but

they destroy the benefits of, of being young, where you have time, you have energy, and

the distinction there is that I was always working on something that would somehow buy my freedom.

I was just working on various opportunities that I was researching and coming across in terms of starting a business or getting healthy or learning how to master my mind.

Not what self improvement has become, but in bettering myself.

Because I knew at such a young age that I didn't want to end up overweight, obese, low energy, financially unstable.

I wanted to take control of those things fast.

And I can tell you just by like trying just an hour a day.

Even when I was in college and I was partying and I was doing all of these things, I still felt the desire to set aside time to research and try things and build things.

And even though most of them failed, when you actually try something, when you do something, in reality, that's when you learn.

So if you continue to do it over time, try and fail.

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