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Advice to old self

16.11 (Friday) 11.14am at office thought about UK scholarship super concave decision dont limit your options (dont take present as your future). bottom up dont take rewards (not possible) dont work too hard (junyuan worked too hard want certainty so he chose UK), dont maximise, dont optimise, (the seemable best option now (jpa overseas) turn out to be worst. The best option in long run = something secondary or seem worst now) ' the advice of "avoid losses" = more losses '. it backfired as iatrogenics. the movie of 2 dumpsters the most-near-to-best advice is "if you are losing alot, you are on the right track now" ("deliberately and actively lose!" and "lose alot" are not good advice, he won't listen just like he won't listen to "dont take rewards". this kind of hard and fast rule are useless or in fact iatrogenics/detrimental to humans) ultimately the advice to old self = dont take advice ________ when you