# General life advice **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887 "2016-05-04T14:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/62 "2016-05-07T02:30:17Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > If one person reads this and takes it to heart and adjusts **her** lifestyle accordingly, I will consider my day well spent. My bold. Is that a typo? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/63 "2016-05-07T04:24:16Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Everybody knows there’s no such thing as unicorns. There are in Silicon Valley. But I do know there ain’t no sanity clause. ---
**Author:** ![advice86advice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@advice86advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/advice86advice)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/64 "2016-05-07T08:29:43Z")
Ambivalid, yes I was wrong being this concrete. That advice is already changed to: - Find out what is the appropriate amount of sleep for you and stick to it. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/65 "2016-05-07T08:43:26Z")
Always check an OP’s join date. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/66 "2016-05-07T09:26:37Z")
Replenish your precious bodily fluids with distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/67 "2016-05-07T10:06:52Z")
Put your toilet paper roll on so it rolls forward, not backward. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/68 "2016-05-07T15:45:41Z")
Every job you will ever have will require you to kiss ass. Get used to it. You don’t have to excel at it, but you do need to be able to do it when it is necessary. Think twice before you work for the French. You may not like they way they want you to kiss. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/69 "2016-05-07T16:01:54Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > My bold. Is that a typo? Sorry. Should I have said “his”? I was referring to a lifestyle choice in which the woman of the house more likely has influence. I refuse to fill a paragraph with an array of “he or she” or “hin or her” or “his or her”. It is, if nothing else, a flatulent enemy of succinctitude. And using “their” would bring all the grammar nitpickers out from under their terra cotta rubble. There is no convenient “ambivalid” pronoun in the language. Nobody would know that better than you. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/70 "2016-05-07T18:12:52Z")
You don’t have to live your whole life all at once. Time is a usual gift. Make today count. Everything that happens does not have a reason to it. Shit happens. However, everything that happens can be useful if you remember to use it at the right time. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/71 "2016-05-07T21:15:57Z")
Here are two pieces of advice given to pilots. I’m going to substitute “car” where it originally said “plane”, since more people drive. No matter what else happens, drive the car. AND Don’t let your car take you anywhere your brain didn’t get to first. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/72 "2016-05-07T21:25:57Z")
Life is not too short. It is too long. It is too long to put up with unnecessary bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/73 "2016-05-07T22:47:10Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > There is a feller named Jim that I have repeatedly been advised to not mess around with. > mmm My name is Willy McCoy so I’m probably ok on that front. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/74 "2016-05-08T05:16:10Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Life is not too short. It is too long. It is too long to put up with unnecessary bullshit. Life isn’t too short. It’s just that death is so damn long. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/75 "2016-05-08T13:00:08Z")
At the end of your life, you will not regret things you did, but things you did not do. Don’t leave them undone. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/76 "2016-05-09T12:48:26Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > At the end of your life, you will not regret things you did, but things you did not do. Don’t leave them undone. Good advice! I’m headed out now to rob that bank! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/77 "2016-05-09T13:24:01Z")
Too often, people get bogged down on a problem because they know the solution they are thinking of will not work. When you have a problem, come up with at least three plausible solution. One of them should work. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887/78 "2016-05-09T14:59:17Z")
If you live each day as if it were your last, chances are it probably will be! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-life-advice/753887.md?page=3)