Second and most important advice to a younger me is, focus on finding a girl who would stand by you if you were one day struck down and in a wheelchair. That’s all the matters. Looks don’t cut it, character is everything.
So honestly, one of the main levers in life is encourage a younger me to develop is self belief and I mean genuinely, if you act like your worth talking to people will find it magnetic
First great lesson I’ve learnt in my life is, you’d be surprised how far you can get speaking confidently on the phone to someone who doesn’t know who you are I’ll explain…
And if you are a bit ugly or seem unimpressive, it actually probably works better because the massive disconnect between who you appear to be and how you act tells them they’re something they’re not seeing and that is what creates intrigue in the mind of who you are talking to
Not backing yourself when somone doesn’t know who you are doesn’t do anything for you, being 110% confident will get you speaking to CEOs and 10/10 women because perception in the mind of who you are talking to is everything in my experience whether it’s true or not
Second one also is with women, I’m not a smooth person at all and reasonably but not massively attractive, but when you approach a women and speak super confident even joke and pull their leg a bit, they ask themselves “why is he so confident” and they again create stories about why