"Always eat before shopping at Costco"
"Just because I hold an opinion on something doesn’t mean that I need to share it. I spent WAY too much of my early adulthood inserting my viewpoint into discussions that I wasn’t really a part of."
"That when people ask to borrow money especially if it’s a friend or family just expect to never see it again."
"Simply asking “how are you” once in a while is all it takes to not fall apart from old friends."
"Hard work isn’t always the answer.
When I worked a minimum wage job, I would work hard and not take breaks, so a great job, and always finish early. I just then got told to pick up the slack for the employees who spent their time goofing off. Never got a promotion, raise, or even a “Hey, good job”"
"Being well-educated in one area doesn’t mean that a person can’t be a total idiot in other areas."
"“Every action made in anger ends in sorrow.”
An attorney, when I was 24"
"Tell the police nothing. Tell the paramedic everything."
"Your oral health is just as important as your general health."
"Always get it in writing"
"CYA- Cover Your @$$. Learned that when I was a social worker for 10 years & horribly abused by my bosses & clients. I work an office job now doing data entry & the younger employees find it odd that I save so many emails. I want proof of EVERYTHING so I can go back and point out SEE! You DID agree. It’s saved me enough that people trust my credibility and will come to me first if there’s confusion in anything."
"That you can actually say no to your parents."
"Going too long without sleep can impair your ability to drive the same way as drinking too much alcohol."
"Percentages are reversible. So 8% of 25 is the same thing as 25% of 8 and sometimes the reverse is easier to calculate."
"This goes for calculating birthdays as well: If they had their birthday already this year;
30 year old was born in 1992, 92 year old was born in 1930
45 year old was born in 1977, 77 year old was born in 1945"
"That gargling saltwater works way better than cough drops for colds and sore throats."
"Bit late to this but a university lecturer once said “Practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent.”
Make sure you’re learning the right way to do things as much as you can, because otherwise those bad habits will take longer to change."
"That you need to regularly check and top up the fluids in your car. I bought my first car at 16, a cheap old beater, and knew nothing about cars other than gas makes it go. Found out the hard way that it had other required fluids that I had neither checked nor filled. Broke down on the highway and f@#ked up my engine."
"A pony is not a baby horse."
"Just because they’re older than you, doesn’t make them more mature. Would’ve saved me from an entire marriage"
"Days go by slowly; years go by quickly."
"Flammable and inflammable mean the same, found that out the hard way"
"No one really cares about you. I don’t mean that in a bad way. But everyone is so busy thinking about themselves, you are always an after-thought.
The most embarrassing thing in your life probably doesn’t matter that much to someone else."
"There are no vineyards at Martha’s Vineyard."
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Re. the car the kid bought, doesn’t he have parents?
as for any device: RTFM
Socrates himself never wanted his words written down. He wanted people to hear what he said, then if they found it meaningful, they should themselves contemplate it's truth, and debate with others to weed out any falsities. After which, either what he originally said would get repeated, or a new truth would be discovered.
Thus was born the Socratic Method.
I find that hard to believe