Bad habits that you pick up in your twenties

Fitness - Cardinal sin IMO. Most countries do not encourage any kind of physical activity and focus only on education or landing a job. Terrible way to live your life. Find anything that interests you from gym, dance, running, martial arts to literally anything to keep you active.

Saving - While it is ok to spend some during your 20s and after you land your first job, saving as early as possible is a habit that is never encouraged nor taught. Even if taught the seriousness of it is lost in translation somewhere.

Investing - as an add on to saving, 20s are the right time to experiment with different investment options. Good investments can earn you loads down the line.

Relationships - While casual relationships are fine - serious ones are highly overrated. Especially if they are abusive or tend to chip you off negatively. It is only in your late 20s that you realize that romance is really expensive.

Career-building - Hardest IMO, since even I haven’t quite figured it out at 34. Finding your skill, building your niche and negotiating the right pay are life skills that nobody can or will help you with. 20s are easy to cross with any job and any pay. 5–8 years into your career you may realise what you’ve gotten yourself into.

Build habits - Not just hobbies. Find easier, more efficient ways of doing everyday things - laundry, organizing clothes, cleaning your room, completing your work ,etc., I highly recommend reading the book Atomic Habits.

Read, a lot - Watch as many movies or series as you want. But once in a while take a pause from the insanity and read a good book. Buy a kindle membership or take a walk to a near by used-book store. The folks who manage it are usually the chatty type, understand what people read these days. Books are dirt cheap and can help you build perspective or open new avenues of thought.

Cherishing youth - 20s are the time of your life when you should really do as much as you can with your time and energy. Falling into an abusive relationship, landing a bad job or any number of things can ruin it. But always find something to improve on and keep at it. This way you will have something to be nostalgic about.

Dress-up - Find a good style that suits you and allocate some money to buy yourself some good clothes. Don’t splurge or shop at whim. Delaying gratification is very very underrated.

Travel - Not asking anyone to splurge, but travel is totally worth any money you spend on it. At least once year, make sure to visit a place you have always wanted to. Find a way and make it economic. Don’t put it off for later.

Don’t feed the trolls - Don’t get involved in online fights. I don’t need to explain this.

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