what would you email your past self?

[Jeff]

random discussion: if you could send an email to yourself at some point in the past (regardless of if email was invented then) what would you tell yourself and why?

[the_Bird]

I'd email myself about ten years ago to buy ALL the Apple stock I could.

[Redz]

I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!

[pearljammer10]

I'd email myself about ten years ago to buy ALL the Apple stock I could.

Definitely what he said.tp

[wdleehi]

The winners of every horse race, car race, soccer game....   Basically the winners of all the sports that I can gamble on in Vegas of the sports I don't care about watching. 

[jarufu]

Hmmm ..

Ignoring the fact the I don't want to change what I've got right now ..


Choose a better college course and stay in college ..
Marry wife and have kids a lot earlier!
Befriend a Bostonian who will tape games and send them to you prior to league pass being available!
If you want to be a rock star .. you've really got to leave your house!
Give address of current boss and pelt him with rotten fruit .. he won't know why!

[housecall]

Tell myself when the C's are wining championships...all the wealth and other possibilites will come alone with knowing.

[Edgar]

every single weather disaster from last 10 days

Save millions of life and be a Weather Guru earning tons of money and world respect while i do it.
HEy nothings for free.

[slamtheking]

hmmm,
The biggest winning Powerball and Megamillions numbers for the drawings before the jackpots were hit.
(I wouldn't bother with gambling on professional sports-- bookies aren't too happy when you win all the time and my starting cash for betting would have been too low to make much of a financial splash)
Same thing for the stock market--not enough starting cash to buy enough stock to make much of a difference.

I would make mention of investing in land when it was relatively "dirt" cheap though.

Give myself a heads up on where to be or more importantly, where not to be when certain things occurred in my life.  (and we'll let it go at that  )

[Jeff]

I think financially I'd email myself the S&P 500 tracked over the past 20 years

but I'd also try to send myself some advice like "ignore that girl you have a crush on, don't take that job, etc."

[Redz]

Honestly, I'm not saying my life's perfect, but I wouldn't risk messing up all of the good stuff I have for removing some of the crap from the past.

For instance, I can track a very distinct positive path in my life that started with taking a job pumping gas at Cumby's in the dead of winter in 1995.  Horrible, horrible job, but it started a very positive domino effect.

[Casperian]

Just kiss her.

[Evantime34]

Honestly, I'm not saying my life's perfect, but I wouldn't risk messing up all of the good stuff I have for removing some of the crap from the past.

For instance, I can track a very distinct positive path in my life that started with taking a job pumping gas at Cumby's in the dead of winter in 1995.  Horrible, horrible job, but it started a very positive domino effect.

That is essentially the basic idea behind one of Nietzsche's core concepts. Either you've read philosophy or you're a natural.

[Redz]

Honestly, I'm not saying my life's perfect, but I wouldn't risk messing up all of the good stuff I have for removing some of the crap from the past.

For instance, I can track a very distinct positive path in my life that started with taking a job pumping gas at Cumby's in the dead of winter in 1995.  Horrible, horrible job, but it started a very positive domino effect.

That is essentially the basic idea behind one of Nietzsche's core concepts. Either you've read philosophy or you're a natural.

ummm...never read Nietzche  (didn't he play for the Bears in the 50's?)

[Redz]

Just kiss her.

ok, maybe I'd send that to 14 year old me