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22 Pieces of One-Line Advice for 2022

3 minute summary of my 33 years of existence

Pranshu "Maverick" Dwivedi
3 min readJan 4, 2022
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No matter who you are or where you live, the last two years have been a bit if an anomaly that none of us was prepared for.

It just seems like the anomaly is probably a norm. Yet, such black swan events aside, some life lessons stand the test of time and circumstances and work for nearly everyone. Let’s dive straight into them.

  1. If you are to procrastinate, procrastinate on worrying, push it by just one more day, every day.
  2. Stop saving and planning only for retirement. 60-year-old you will be OK if 30-year old you learned to live a little.
  3. Financial independence doesn’t come from a big bank account, it comes from learning to live the way you can afford.
  4. If someone else’s path to success was so easy for you to take, they would never show you the map.
  5. No two people are a perfect match, we are all like different chemical elements — there are multiple compounds waiting to be formed, some stable, yet others explosive.
  6. Life is a zero-sum game — if each one of us is only willing to receive, who then will be the giver?
  7. Stop rushing towards every checkpoint so you can beat the person in front of you — this is a…

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Pranshu "Maverick" Dwivedi
Pranshu "Maverick" Dwivedi

Written by Pranshu "Maverick" Dwivedi

Stay-at-home-dad who "retired" from a 12-year career in finance at the age of 35. Curious thinker with an opinion on nearly everything and is here to share it.

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