What's one thing you know now, that you wished you had known as a kid?

[HarryBear]

I'll go first.

1) Precious metals, knowing the actual monetary value vs. our current paper money.

2) Owning my own business (should have pursued an fine arts and engraving business because I like working with my hands.

 

[raeken45]

Enjoy being a kid while it lasts, adulting can really suck sometimes.

And buy that running 70 Chevelle 2-door for $1800!

 

[NationalMatch]

That Secretariat was going to win the Derby. I could have increased my life's savings of twelve dollars by four.

Oh, and that Sally M didn't really like me. She just used me to make James jealous.

 

[Grendelshooter]

That the country I loved would let me watch my friends die and make it worth exactly nothing.

 

[FrankNmac]

Rod Stewart said he wished he knew what he knows now when he was younger.

 

[sherrick13]

What tech stocks were going to do.

 

[Aries]

I think I'm more like Bob Seger...

"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."

 

[MacFromOK]

How smart & experienced Mom & Dad really were.

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[GC7]

Take care of the teeth. Dental work is time consuming and expensive.

 

[zghorner]

most importantly: Personal development. It is up to us to educate ourselves and fill any gaps left by family or school. I wish i had discovered Jim Rohn as a child as everything that comes out of that dudes mouth is potentially life changing at any age...let alone as a young man.

Enjoy my late teens and 20s more and have as much sex as possible with hot little baddies...

How to allocate money/invest/trade. The stock market isn't that bad once you get over the initial intimidation of the financial realm. had i started doing basic/simple/passive investment strategies in my late teens I would be a millionaire in my 30s.

I wish I had realized that money = choices. The more money you have the more choices that are available to you...so focus on building wealth early to set my future self up for a life filled with choices

Guns and ammo increase in value each year and make excellent long term investments/inflation hedges.

so to recap: personal development, sex, money, guns and bullets.