1) Family - Never put your family, friends on your low priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances. Don’t lose touch with old friends.
2) Negativity vs Positivity — Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled. Don’t do stuff that doesn’t make you happy (this happens most often when other people want you to do something). Don’t spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don’t like, and cut negative people out of your life. Negativity is really bad. Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
3) How to succeed - Pick the right thing to do, focus, believe in yourself (especially when others tell you it’s not going to work). Find your native genius, develop personal connections with people that will help you, learn to identify talented people, and work hard.
4) Work: It's difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about. And it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work. Work very hard—a surprising number of people will be offended that you choose to work hard—but not so hard that the rest of your life passes you by. Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you’ll probably end up in a pretty good place. Most people pick their career fairly randomly—really think hard about what you like, what fields are going to be successful, and try to talk to people in those fields.
5) Money : Money can't buy happiness but it can buy freedom, and that’s a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful. In almost all ways, having enough money so that you don’t stress about paying bills does more to change your wellbeing than having enough money to buy your own jet. Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I’ve spent on family, friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
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