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Career Development: What do you recommend I should invest my time and knowledge into at 18, that will impact my future for the better?
David Adrian Thomas Esq MICHT, Author "My Life of Autism and Asperger's Syndrome" answered:

I was born into and raised by a nepotistic, privileged, royal, dynastic, private, secret, familial, society, founded in 1066. It guaranteed a great job for life, with a great pension on one's retirement, and I became chief instructor on attaining age 50.

And what was it I knew that everybody else wanted to know? How to become a millionaire? Nope! How to make everyone love me and make me their leader? Nope! How to make ladies throw themselves at my feet and want to have my babies? Nope!

How did I survive as long as I had? Yep! You've got it! You have to survive the slings and arrows of outrageous fate / fortune / destiny / whatever to even arrive at the age I had attained.

You are intelligent. You know what I have just said is right. You've had days when you've been so miserable you've stopped caring whether you are live or dead. When you'd rather be dead than the way you've been feeling. When you've walked absent mindedly across a road or a railway without checking first to the left and the right if a vehicle isn't charging towards you. When you've gone swimming in a river fully clothed because you've had too much to drink.

You have to find a way of guaranteeing your survival 'for the long run' because qualities of patience, persistence, business acumen, and positive outcomes mean nothing when the chips are down.

A quarter of the people on earth are mentally ill at any one time. That's a metaphor for 'feeling suicidal'. There is such a massive stigma against the word suicide that nobody will use it to describe how they feel.

So what you need to know before you start looking for that Midas touch to revolve a business around is how to keep yourself away from feeling suicidal, from churning thoughts that'll throw you in front of a bus from sleep deprivation.

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