School of Hard Knocks

Came across this interesting TikTok channel. The whole premise is this young guy interviewing random people on streets how they became successful. Many gems there.

This man’s advices:

  1. Create something of value to society, and
  2. Start a Roth IRA ASAP.

This guy had some real estate investment advice:

Advice from someone who got laid off at Cisco. The “work on open source tech” bit is new to me but makes tons of sense.

People having excessive expectations are always disappointed.

Just live.

Be happy with whatever life dishes out to you.