The speaker would tell their 18-year-old self to chill out and trust your gut. Skip the shortcut: mistakes teach you more than any guide could. Growth comes from the failures you actually live through.
What would you say to yourself if you could talk to yourself at 18? I'd be like, just chill out and just trust yourself. Whatever your intuition is, just trust it because you're right. Obviously I can go the cheat code and be like, hey, yeah, I just made you a fucking 50-page document, do all this shit. It'd be nice, but I'd probably miss out on a lot of the formative hardships and formative fuck-ups that are gonna have ROI. I don't really believe in preventing fuck-ups.
