Just ask questions and be curious and you will thrive beyond your imagination.

Don’t say shit when you don’t know what you’re talking about because you’ll conflate feeling smart with the fact that 99.9% of people just won’t tell you the truth to your face. They are terrified of that potential conflict.

And then one day when you’re older you will go through a horrific ego death when you meet that person who tells you the truth to your face.

The longer it takes to go through this ego death the less likely you are able to recover from it. You see that you don’t have any real friends and you don’t have the cognitive faculties to process what kind of person you just met that told you the truth.

You can spot these people clear as day. They shoot the messenger instead of facing the ego death that has been building. Then they go into attack mode because they feel an existential threat coming for them.

So yeah just be curious and ask questions so you avoid this situation. It’s ugly.