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It's you, person of the year ! Life hacks

Buying a car? Buy it at the end of the month. Salespeople have quotas to meet each month and will be more likely to cut you a deal. If you have a .edu email address, you can get an Amazon Prime acct. This lets you watch almost unlimited TV/Movies. Never use your favorite song as your alarm clock, you'll end up hating it. If you ask for unsalted French Fries at McDonalds they'll make a fresh batch for you.   Put that you were Time’s 2006 person of the year on your resume/CV. In 2006, Time made "Everyone" the person of the year.  

The only need to maximize happiness !

All of us must have known boys stalking girls, and girls stalking boys. All of us must have seen fans standing for hours merely to catch sights of celebrities. All of us must have heard people judging others here, there and everywhere, all in vain. All of us must have met people scrolling up & down through social media all the time. All of us must have witnessed people intruding in others' lives. And to be brutally honest, I found none of them happy or content. Not even close to that. So, the only thing that I told myself after observing all this was — “Never ever let yourself be more interested in someone else's life than your own.” And I've been much happier since that very day.

Be Fearless !

Become fearless. “Sounds awesome. But how do I do that?” Simple—here are your instructions: Pack your bag. Fly to South East Asia. Stay there until you run out of money. Run out of money. Get a job or find a way to make a tiny amount of money. Live on the bare minimum—eat only rice, live in a shitty house. Realise you can fend for yourself and that you don’t actually need a lot to survive in this world. All of this is about experiencing your worst case scenario. Doing this will give you the freedom and the confidence to try anything—because you know you’ll be okay. Whatever happens, even if you lose everything,  you know you can fend for yourself and survive. This is what Elon Musk did in his early days. He wanted to move to America but was scared about not getting a job—yes, Elon Musk was  scared  about not getting a job. So, he decided to live on $1 a day. He ate nothing but oranges, hotdogs and pasta. He figured it’s pretty easy to find $...