24 Lessons from 2024

samina
2 min readDec 16, 2024

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  1. You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
  2. Don’t surrender easily. Sometimes the most difficult moments when you raise the white flag are when you are most ready to fight the battle.
  3. What got you here, won’t get you there. Change the strategy often.
  4. Don’t get comfortable in uncertainty. Some situations won’t ever serve you.
  5. You’re not asking for a lot. You’re asking the wrong person.
  6. Let the repetitions compound. Trust that every step forward today big or small will lead you to the right place.
  7. Trust your gut more and your brain less. Your brain is good at constructing narratives. Your gut tells it to you straight.
  8. Don’t chase happiness. Chase purpose and happiness will find you.
  9. Social media algorithms push you to crave a form of validation that can’t be satiated. Go offline as much as you can as often as you can.
  10. You’re not too old to learn [insert activity]. I started learning piano this year knowing I’ll never be Mozart but I will one day play his songs.
  11. Be a river, not a pond. Don’t let your life stagnate before your eyes.
  12. When you can’t outsmart someone, outwork them. Show up everyday and you’ll outpace everyone around you.
  13. You need a good friend to get you through tough times. You need a rival to get you through easy times.
  14. Don’t draft a plan B. When you give yourself a choice, you give yourself a way out.
  15. If someone is not adding any value to your life, then they are taking from it. Giving credit for this quote to my best friend, IC. ❤
  16. Don’t change who you are to make yourself palatable. Some people have bad taste.
  17. The thing you thought was embarrassing was actually brave. It made you human. Don’t beat yourself up about it.
  18. Sometimes you’re gonna be the villain. Villains are some of the coolest characters in the story.
  19. When you start to continuously losing in some aspects of your life, start making strides towards winning in others. You’ll one day go back and win all those places you lost too.
  20. Oftentimes the right thing to do is the hardest thing to do. Do it anyway.
  21. Reading makes you better at writing. Writing makes you better at thinking.
  22. Pain is fuel. Without pain you would not feel the need to change your circumstances.
  23. You don’t know how many days you’ll be on this earth. That’s the only certainty within uncertainty.
  24. Everyone goes through a lonely period at different points in their life. It’s okay to eat alone. To go the movies alone. To celebrate your birthday alone. Be alone for some time in order to find yourself.

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