The challenge of being behind

Imagine....

You are an extremely hardworking student, you are a 24 year old senior and are pursuing a degree in Biochemistry, so you can go to medical school.

One evening, after a 4 hour study period at the library, you are on your way to your apartment... you cross the street without looking twice and BAM, a drunk driver hits you and LIGHTS OUT... you are unconscious...

You wake up... look around... you are conscious, you are in a hospital, you remember what happened... you see a yellow button that allows you to call a nurse, you press it and 20 seconds later, the nurse shows up with her mouth wide open (she is extremely surprised you are up). You start talking to her and then you realize... it is seven years later... you were in a coma for 7 years....


now what?

You are now a 31 year old who missed out on the last 7 years of his life. Where do you go from here? Could you still pursue your ambitions?
The amount of knowledge and technology in the world has definitely advanced exponentially to the point where you are just too overwhelmed to be able to think straight....

honestly... What is the next step??


Fortunately, this does not happen often... but unfortunately it happens all the time.
We have people who live unconscious lives for years before realizing that the world is too far ahead of them...
they get to a point where they are tooo deep and it is too overwhelming to try to figure things out...

We live in a time of constant learning, for you to remain just average, you need to keep learning till the day you kick the bucket...

I was an OECD youth unemployment conference where they were talking about why so much youth are unemployed in Europe. Someone brought forth the idea that the youth of today are just too lazy especially because of all the technology and material at their disposal. trying to put it in their words "they do not really understand the concept of hard work or discipline"

Unfortunately I agree with this statement, of course not for all youth but for a majority... the lack of discipline is a serious problem in our generation. It honestly is not our fault because anybody could be in this situation, even our grandparents (if they were born in our time).

It is not our fault BUT it is our responsibility.

Time moves incredibly fast nowadays, i know for sure when I was younger time did not move as fast as it does today.
There is only one way to slow down time
 (slowing down time link)


Getting back into the Game
-Pick up a book and read (recommended book list link)
-make goals for your life, write them down and look at them every morning.
-honestly think of a way you can change the world (even if its in a little way)
-sign up for a newspaper that covers global events (i recommend WSJ)

**the best time to catch up or get ahead in the game is when there is chaos/a crisis. Why? because in times of crisis most people "slack off" For example, when the earthquake happened in Japan, alot of people around me started asking, what's the point of life if one day this is going to happen and blah blah... people decided that it is better to enjoy the moment instead of continue investing. well it is important to know that most stories are blown up so that fear will hit us and so the few and advantaged will accelerate while the majority slack off. So do not let any crisis give you a false assurance of "i can die tomorrow so let me just enjoy".  Move and move fast in the time of crisis