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 Learn universally useful skills. These may include social skills like the art of negotiation, other practical skills like financial literacy, or coding or even martial arts. The list is long.
 Get a few credentials.
 Study history to learn what is possible. You don’t know what’s possible unless you study history. You could also extend this to studying notable people; maybe leaders, businessmen, artists etc., by reading their biographies for instance.
 Establish good habits that will carry you through your life.
 Become very fit and healthy.
 Learn how to think. You could do this by reading a book on philosophy, or a discourse on a particular subject, or other kinds of books. I noticed that writing too helps a lot in clearing and streamlining your thinking.
These will prepare you to be really exceptional once you do have an excellent mission or goal at the end of the road. Once you find what you want to do, you’ll be very happy you prepared.
Finally, there’s the golden advice of all ages; know thyself. You realize that in campus as in the outside world, there will be very many people, many events, and many products competing for your attention, time and money. It gets increasingly chaotic in this world where every day more new
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