10 Ways Men Waste their Lives

Alexander J.A Cortes
6 min readMar 16, 2017

I wrote this originally for men in their 20s, but these points can be applied to most any age of man.

While your 20s are your primetime for your life, growth does not end once you enter your 30s. That, your 20s can be a mans foundation for the rest of his life, or you can waste them and be playing catch up in your 30s, wishing you had started sooner.

Do not waste your 20s. Your health, wealth, relationships, and business(s) you create in your 20s can put you ahead of 99% of people if you use these years well.

If you want to know how to waste your 20s, do the following

1. Follow conventional rules that other people tell you you’re “supposed” to follow, and never question this

Go to college, get a bachelors in 6 or 7 years because having a degree means you must earn more over a lifetime, and any degree is better than no degree. Take out student loans if you cannot afford it, and maybe go to grad school if your major is one that ends up being mostly worthless if all you have is a bachelors in it. Believe everything the mainstream news says. Be a “male feminist”. Apologize for anything thats masculine, believe that masculinity is toxic. Listen to your parents that a job is security. Buy a house even if you can barely afford to. Buy a new car, even though its overvalued and a used one would work…

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