18 Things Every 18 Year Old Should Know

Chaohinon · 2015-02-08T08:51:43+00:00

If your dad dies and leaves you a 25k life insurance payout, don't link it to your joint bank account (which you should also just not have to begin with). Do not use some of it to buy her nice things out of love, gratitude, and, "hey, sorry I haven't had the cash to do these kinds of things for you as often."

Don't tempt Murphy's Law. Murphy is definitely a woman, and she's a merciless cunt.

RBuddDwyer · 2015-02-08T12:05:52+00:00

The Book of Pook should be first on any 18 year old's reading list.

meet_me_at_high_noon · 2015-02-08T16:50:54+00:00

Some of the stuff on there is really bad advice. For example, not going to college. Too many people are buying into that. Yes there are a lot of stupid professors out there. The correct advice is: go to college, but don't pick your professors brains. Self teach. You go to college so you can hold that piece of paper in peoples faces and say "hire me." If you went to college expecting your professors to impart their wisdom, you did it wrong. Go to college, self-teach yourself, and be done with it.

Unless your Bill gates or Zuckerberg, or if you want to go for art, not going to college is a terrible life choice.

Ridoon · 2015-02-08T05:24:54+00:00

Almost 18, thanks for this

TheNarrowRoad · 2015-02-08T06:36:07+00:00

Big hypocrite here, but I'd advise not to make money your first priority. Focus on building relationships. Friends, family, a wide and diverse social network. Be a popular guy. Making money will be sooo much easier after you have a large social circle. That's what I would have told my 18 yr old self (mid-20's now)

jupiter78 · 2015-02-08T05:48:55+00:00

I think part 3 is partly bullshit though. I mean sure if your gonna be an english or arts major then of course you're not guaranteed money. Thats your own fault for picking a career thats low in demand. But if want to study to be an engineer, work in IT, medicine, or other high demand fields that will land you a job you absolutely need higher education.

fap_the_pain_away · 2015-02-08T12:36:56+00:00

I wish someone would compile a list of every awesome long, detailed Red Pill post written by an older guy and aimed at the younger crowd. If something like 50 of these posts were put together, each one several paragraphs long, it would essentially form a guidebook for the younger Red Pill man. It gives the reader a huge advantage in life. It's just too effective.

docbloodmoney · 2015-02-08T19:51:45+00:00

7) your family is full of BS

the most consistent advice I've gotten from my dad is "never get married, not worth the trouble"

juanqunt · 2015-02-08T16:05:36+00:00

From the archives: Best of Craigslist: Advice to Young Men from an Old Man

Don’t pick on the weak. It’s immoral. Don’t antagonize the strong without cause, its stupid.

Don’t hate women. It’s a waste of time

Invest in yourself. Material things come to those that have self actualized.

Get in a fistfight, even if you are going to lose.

As a former Marine, take it from me. Don’t join the military, unless you want to risk getting your balls blown off to secure other people’s economic or political interests.

If something has a direct benefit to an individual or a class of people, and a theoretical, abstract, or amorphous benefit to everybody else, realize that the proponent’s intentions are to benefit the former, not the latter, no matter what bullshit they try to feed you.

Don’t be a Republican. They are self-dealing crooks with no sense of honor or patriotism to their fellow citizens. If you must be a Republican, don’t be a “conservative.” They are whining, bitching, complaining, simple-minded self-righteous idiots who think they’re perpetual victims. Listen to talk radio for a while, you’ll see what I mean.

Don’t take proffered advice without a critical analysis. 90% of all advice is intended to benefit the proponent, not the recipient. Actually, the number is probably closer to 97%, but I don’t want to come off as cynical.

You’ll spend your entire life listening to people tell you how much you owe them. You don’t owe the vast majority of people shit.

Don’t undermine your fellow young men. Mentor the young men that come after you. Society recognizes that you have the potential to be the most power force in society. It scares them. Society does not find young men sympathetic. They are afraid of you, both individually and collectively. Law enforcement’s primary purpose is to suppress you.

As a young man, you’re on your own. Society divides and conquers. Unlike women who have advocates looking out for them (NOW, Women’s Study Departments, government, non-profit organizations, political advocacy groups) almost no one is looking out for you.

Young men provide the genius and muscle by which our society thrives. Look at the Silicone Valley. By in large, it was not old men or women that created the revolution we live. Realize that society steals your contributions, secures it with our intellectual property laws, and then takes credit and the rewards where none is due.

Know that few people have your best interests at heart. Your mother does. Your father probably does (if he stuck around). Your siblings are on your side. Everybody else worries about themselves.

Don’t be afraid to tell people to “Fuck off” when need be. It is an important skill to acquire. As they say, speak your piece, even if your voice shakes.

Acquire empathy, good interpersonal skills, and confidence. Learn to read body language and non-verbal communication. Don’t just concentrate on your vocational or technical skills, or you’ll find your wife fucking somebody else.

Keep fit.

Don’t speak ill of your wife/girlfriend. Back her up against the world, even if she’s wrong. She should know that you have her back. When she needs your help, give it. She should know that you’ll take her part.

Don’t cheat on your wife/girlfriend. If you must cheat, don’t humiliate her. Don’t risk having your transgressions come back to her or her friends. Don’t do it where you live. Don’t do it with people in your social circle. Don’t shit in your own back yard.

If your girlfriend doesn’t make you feel good about yourself and bring joy to your life, fire her. That’s what girlfriends are for.

Don’t bother with “emotional affairs.” They are just a vehicle for women to flirt and have someone make them feel good about themselves. That’s the part of a relationship they want. For you it is a lot of work and investment in time. If they are having an emotional affair with you, they’re probably fucking someone else.

Becoming a woman’s friend and confidant is not going to get you into an intimate relationship. If you haven’t gotten the girl within a reasonably short period of time, chances are you won’t ever get her. She’ll end up confiding to you about the sexual adventures she’s having with someone else.

Have and nurture friendships with women.

Realize that love is a numbers game. Guys fall in love easily. You’re going to see some girl and feel like you’ll die if you don’t get her. If she rejects you, move on to the next one. It’s her loss.

Don’t be an internet troll. Got out and live life. There is not a cadre of beautiful women advertising on Craigslist to have NSA sex with you. Beautiful women don’t need to advertise. The websites that advertise with attractive women’s photos and claims of loneliness are baloney. All they want is your money and your personal information so that they can market to you. The posts on Craigslist by young “women” seeking NSA sex, and asking for a picture are just a bunch of gay troll pic collectors. This is especially true if the post uses common gay lexicon like “hole” as in “fuck my hole” or seeks “masculine” men, or uses the word cock (except in the context of “Don’t send a cock shot.”) There are women on Craigslist. They are easily recognizable by their 2-5 paragraph postings. Most are in their 30's or older.

When you become a man in full, know that people will get in your way. People who are attracted to you will somehow manage to step in your path. Gay guys will give you “the look.” Old people will somehow stumble in front of you at the worst time. Don’t get frustrated. Just step aside and go about your business. Know that these are passive aggressive methods to get you to acknowledge their existence.

Don’t gay bash. Don’t mentally or physically abuse people because of who they are, or how they present themselves. It’s none of your business to try to intimidate people into conformity.

If your gay, admit it to yourself, your parents, your friends and society at large. Be prepared to get harassed. See rule 14. If someone threatens you or assaults you, call the cops. Have them arrested. You have no obligation to self sacrifice because of who you are. As a gay person, you’ll have more social freedom than straight men. Use it to protect yourself. Be prepared to get out of Dodge if your orientation makes your life unbearable. Move to San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, or New Orleans. You’ll find a welcoming community there.

Don’t be a poser. Avoid being one of those dudes who puts a surfboard on top of their car, but never surfs, or a dude with a powder coated fixed gear bike and a messenger bag, but was never a messenger. Live the life. Earn your bona fides.

Don’t believe the crap about the patriarchy. More women are accepted and attend college. More degrees are awarded to women than men. Women outlive men. More men commit suicide. Men are twice as likely to be victims of violence, including murder. If you consider sexual assaults in prisons, twice as many men are raped as women (society thinks prison rape is funny). The streets are littered with homeless men, sprinkled with a few homeless women. Statically, women are happier than men. The myth that girls are being cheated by are educational system is belied by the fact that schools are bastions of femininity, mostly run by and taught by women. Girls outperform boys in school. It is the boys in school getting fucked over, and prescribed ritalin for being boys. Real wages for men are falling, while real wages for women are rising. Just because someone says something enough times, doesn’t make it true. You have nothing to feel guilty about.

Remember, 97% of all advice is worthless. Take what you can use, and trash the rest.

MisterOrigon · 2015-02-08T07:25:26+00:00

I love this website. Don't agree 100% on most of his advice about women, but he has great info on business, bodybuilding, and motivational posts. This website is definitely a resource for whichever parts of it you benefit from!

MegaSuperCritic · 2015-02-08T22:57:30+00:00

A lot of those things are total bullshit, the only good points are the ones you picked. Good picks, though

juanqunt · 2015-02-08T23:11:44+00:00

This is terrible advice, at 18 I would get a secured credit card with no annual fee and put it in a sock drawer to use one every couple of months. Many, many pieces of bad advice in this article. Good ones too but /r/finance would cringe at the financial advice. Having bad/no credit is a bad idea.

TheWSTensai · 2015-02-08T06:56:26+00:00

I love it. Work of art right there.

30fretibanezguy · 2015-02-08T09:08:34+00:00

Are there any threads on here just about why we shouldn't believe in feminism and why it's bullshit? I mean I know there are but, link please

cwschizzy · 2015-02-08T08:33:27+00:00

At 19 and in college, I needed this. Thanks.

havelbrandybuck · 2015-02-08T09:59:38+00:00

This article is opinionated rubbish. It has a few critical and common sense points in it, but many others such as office jobs being for "girly men" are idealist, derogatory and shackles men to gender expectations. Get an office job crunching advanced differential equations and solving mechanical problems and you're already doing an office job most women are not mentally capable of.

Stinkfished · 2015-02-08T18:34:20+00:00

Victor Pride is /pol/ as fuck.

The_Procrasturbater · 2015-02-09T00:54:10+00:00

I do not agree with what this man says ..

"White people are the least racist, least sexist people on the face of the earth and I can assure you that is a fact."

Seriously ?

manjot97 · 2015-02-08T08:30:27+00:00

Turned 18 on friday. Deep stuff man..

Menadian · 2015-02-08T16:49:56+00:00

My priority number one should not be fucking making money....

WhenIntegralsAttack · 2015-02-08T18:21:35+00:00

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ragerdat · 2015-02-08T12:38:38+00:00

I stopped reading after

"If I were 18 years old right now this is exactly what I would do: I would skip college, I would read the Fastlane Forum voraciously, I would save up two thousand dollars and I would move to either Chiang Mai, Thailand or Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Those two places are filled to the brim with young, white foreign entrepreneurs who spend their time networking, building businesses and partying and they live on about $500 per month while doing it. "

_TheEndGame · 2015-02-08T06:55:20+00:00

Nice post. Really relevant to me right now.

cocoguard · 2015-02-08T18:23:08+00:00

This is great. 18 and motivated.

Jaymacmac · 2015-02-08T12:49:04+00:00

To the OP, not allowing women to vote isn't discrimination ? That's unequivocated bullshit, c'mon man, you need to do better than that. The world does not revolve around your testes.

WeAreGlidingNow · 2015-02-08T10:24:24+00:00

getting married young will be the biggest mistake of your life

I don't know. Getting married and then earning a large income (and therefore setting yourself up for divorce rape) is worse. I know folks who were poor at 19, got married, then divorced a few years later, still broke. Seems like no big deal; not saddled with huge lifetime alimony.

Do not make women your priority

Yes. There's a reason "pussy" spelled backwards is "wise up".

CsteveC · 2015-02-08T20:43:10+00:00

I'm a 21 year old male and agree on a few of these points, however couldn't it be said that all men are also the same?

Ridoon · 2015-02-08T07:07:38+00:00

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Title	18 Things Every 18 Year Old Should Know
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Date	February 8, 2015 4:09 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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