I don't know who needs to hear this, but use every unfair advantage you have in life, your looks, your genetics, your connections, your parents money, whatever it is, use it because there's nothing noble about making your life harder just to call yourself an underdog. Some people may act like success only counts if it comes from suffering, as if the goal is to prove how much pain you can endure. It's not, the goal is to build a good life. If you've been given an advantage, pretending it doesn't exist doesn't make you humble, it just makes you inefficient. The people who achieve extraordinary things rarely spend their time apologizing for their advantages, they acknowledge them and use them. Remember that the purpose of an advantage is not to feel guilty about it, it is to help yourself go further because of it.
you really have to train your brain by immediately getting up to do the things you don’t want to do so it starts to believe that hard things don’t bother you
I think adulthood becomes much easier when you have enough money to enjoy your own life. You don’t always need company. You can take yourself out, order whatever you want, travel, stay home, buy yourself things. Money gives you choices.
I tell people that when you have mastered the act of contentment, people start thinking you have everything. Contentment doesn’t cancel desire; it cancels desperation.