Try things while you are young

While you're young, try to get involved in as many different things as possible.

I think that, until around twenty-five, one of the main tasks is to try almost anything that interests you. Build projects, start businesses, meet people, organise events, speak, make mistakes and sometimes get involved in something you can't even explain yet.

The important thing is that you don't always have to know in advance what it will be useful for.

When I started getting involved in student activities, running Telegram channels and building my first projects, I had no idea where it would lead. I was simply interested.

A collection of seemingly random decisions brought me to what I'm doing now, which I enjoy enormously.

I wonder how much of my life wouldn't have happened if I had decided those things were a pointless waste of time.

One of the biggest mistakes you can make when you're young is trying to become serious and settle your entire life too early: pick one direction, write a ten-year plan and never let anything distract you.

Right now, you have a chance to try a hundred things, fail at ninety of them, and gain experience you will never get in a lecture.

I also like the idea of being hungry for knowledge and people.

If someone nearby understands something better than you do, make the most of the conversation. Ask questions. Listen. Try to understand how they think. If you have a chance to enter an environment that is completely new to you, go.

Don't be afraid to take responsibility for things you don't know how to do yet. That is often how you learn. We frequently take on projects in unfamiliar areas, learn what we need along the way, and do good work.

I don't want to romanticise endless work or a lack of sleep. I know how easy it is to stop coping, physically and mentally, in the middle of all this activity.

But the ability to work hard, keep going after early failures and finish what you start is an important skill.

There is another thing I consider essential: you can be adventurous in what you do while remaining stubborn about your principles.

Try whatever interests you. Change your interests. Launch ten projects at once if that is what you enjoy. But don't deceive people, let them down or break your word. Don't step over your own values for a short-term gain.

The world is small and life is long. The people you're working with today may still be beside you in ten or twenty years.

Of course there is another side to all this. I know I sometimes spread myself across too many things. Maybe I would have achieved more if I had concentrated on one.

But that constant desire to try something new is also why I ended up where I am now.

For now, I think I'm more likely to regret what I never tried than the projects that didn't work out.

So don't wait until you're experienced, rich or prepared enough to begin doing what interests you.

Join things. Do strange things. Make mistakes. Build your own story.

A life with something to remember seems much more interesting to me than one spent trying never to make a mistake.