YOU.
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Jokes, it’s me. You’re probably an adult as well but I can’t guarantee that.
When I graduate university in 2016, I was not ready for Adulthood™. I had been in formal schooling for 18 years at that point and the structure worked well for me — classes had a syllabus, schedule, learning objectives, and a teacher.
Life outside of school is a lot messier. Learning how to be an adult is DIY-XTREME armed with nothing except everything I have and a working internet connection. What other project takes a person their entire lives to master? None.
Going from high-achieving student to mediocre graduate was not a good feeling. Whatever version of success you subscribe to, I was not succeeding.
So I did something about it.
I read a bunch on Google, watching a lot on Youtube, and then clinical-trialled it on myself. Whatever it took, I was going to learn how to be a better adult. I WAS GOING TO BE A BETTER PERSON.
Follow along on the blog as I work my way through the four big areas of my life:
- Financial health
- Physical health
- Mental health
- Personal growth/experiences.
Adulthood isn’t linear, and it sure isn’t easy, but a burden shared is a burden halved, and joy shared is joy multiplied. This is the kind of applied mathematics we can all get behind 👏👏👏
P.S. I’m an expat math teacher in China so any combination of those character traits is going to show up occasionally.