What would you do if you were an 8 year old again, with your current mind (including memories and skills)?
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I could probably honestly convince at least one of my parents of the situation, they were both big woo woo sci-fi nerds.
After that, I have a pretty good memory and could take advantage of strategic stock purchases and entering technologies.
Yeah, my father would believe me, especially after I just tell him exactly what he's been doing.
This will unfortunately cause a divorce several years early but probably for the best.
Could get in literally at the earliest for bitcoin. And just "yeah apple is going to do...a lot. Get on that"
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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
Go to the library a lot. Learn and master the art of lock picking. Make more friends at school (networking). Wear crocs way before they’re cool.
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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
I'd spend a lot of its mourning that I'd never be able to replicate my daughter as she is now. I could time it right to get the right egg, but how many wanks, exactly, and when did I have? How could I possibly even guarantee the right sperm even if I manage to secure the same payload?
Probably instead just ride the bitcoin wave hard as hell and start my own game dev company.
Also I'd be better equipped towards mad anxiety disorder. That shit absolutely ruined my life and it took about 3 years before I realised something was actually wrong.
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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hug my mom
After that I'd probably start the process of establishing that I'm trans, and I'd actually study and put effort into applying to good schools as time goes on.
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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
Convince my parents to put all their money in some fruit company about apples.
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Go to the library a lot. Learn and master the art of lock picking. Make more friends at school (networking). Wear crocs way before they’re cool.
there's still time to get into crocs. they're not going to be cool for a while.
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there's still time to get into crocs. they're not going to be cool for a while.
LOL. Truer words have never been spoken.
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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
keep head down, shut mouth, don't draw attention, find allies
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Yeah, my father would believe me, especially after I just tell him exactly what he's been doing.
This will unfortunately cause a divorce several years early but probably for the best.
Could get in literally at the earliest for bitcoin. And just "yeah apple is going to do...a lot. Get on that"
especially after I just tell him exactly what he's been doing. This will unfortunately cause a divorce several years early but probably for the best.
Adultery or gay (+adultery) or something less obvious?
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especially after I just tell him exactly what he's been doing. This will unfortunately cause a divorce several years early but probably for the best.
Adultery or gay (+adultery) or something less obvious?
Just adultery! The normal!
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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Damn, I accidentally responded to you with my comment for the whole thing. Sorry!
But in response to you - what kind of allies? LGBTQ+? Political?
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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
Definitely get into programming at an earlier age. My mom’s work gave her one of those green monitor computers when I was around this age, but I didn’t know how to work it so it was useless. I bet I could find some books about how to use it at the library or something.
Write more, including the sci-fi ideas I have in my head now so it’s kinda future-predicting.
Don’t take my high school sweetheart back when they break up and want to get back together (or break up with them earlier than I did).
Start using my study skills I know now in Jr High so I can actually kill it in high school like I thought I would.
Get diagnosed for narcolepsy in high school so I can further my potential.
Oh, and not eat all that McDonalds and other fast food as a kid/teenager!!
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Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
Be kinder to my younger brother.
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First, I would convince some of those old crazy ass mercenaries that my uncle used to hang out with that Donald Trump touched me. This would be in 1992. Then I'd work my ass off mowing lawns and doing chores and saving every bit of money I could, invest in apple and other big stocks that I could get as they came out before they hit big, id sell them and invest in Tesla before Elon could get in on it, and Bitcoin. Id use my wealth to invest in solar so that it takes off earlier. Create a Superfund to counter lobbyists like the dark roofing lobby. What a completely asinine thing. Just switch to making white roofing materials? Use my wealth and power to become president, reverse citizens United and bring back a 90% tax on the wealthiest people. (Yes, Including myself.) Boom. World saved.
How would you make that claim believable? Did you have access to Trump (or rather, did he ever have access to you)? It’s a nice plan, but saying it without plausibility sounds like a one way ticket to not being believed about this or anything else ever…
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How would you make that claim believable? Did you have access to Trump (or rather, did he ever have access to you)? It’s a nice plan, but saying it without plausibility sounds like a one way ticket to not being believed about this or anything else ever…
wrote last edited by [email protected]My uncle worked for a publishing company that published all kinds of magazines including guns n ammo, and some other more specific one for mercs though I can't remember the name. And I've met a LOT of those psychos back then. It doesn't really take much more than an accusation to get them going from 0-100. But yeah my grandparents had money and took us on big, expensive trips about every 6 months. 3x to NYC, 3X fishing trips to Alaska, 2X trips to Norway/Sweden, 2x to London, 1x to Paris, Berlin, new Orleans, Grand canyon, Everglades etc. More than enough for those whackos. Honestly, exposure to those guys is probably a big part in why I joined the army before I grew more as a person and learned empathy.
Edit: as a young kid I remember hearing conversations about things such as "best thing to decapitate someone with" and "funniest death" that's not who I wanted to be when I joined the army or anything, but I wanted to be a hero. I wanted to save people who couldn't save themselves, and had delusional ideals that we were the good guys and I could save good people by hurting bad people. It wasn't about idolizing those people, I knew they were crazy even when I was a kid. Just an explanation that it wasn't about some fucked up fantasy or something.
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Honestly, I think that would suck quite a bit. I would have the intelligence and experience of an adult trapped in the body of an 8 year old and dependent on my parents. I wouldn't be able to live independently for years. It would also be difficult to speak and act like an 8 year old. I have a university degree and an 8 year old with university level education would probably make me some weird child prodigy. Not only would I be dependent on my parents, but everyone would be pushing for me to be some genius by the time I'm an adult. I'd eventually grow up to be a huge disappointment. So really I'd kind of just be reliving the past!
The only saving grace is that I might be able to make some money off investing in tech companies and crypto before their drastic increase in value. At least I wouldn't need to work my entire life.
I mean...It will essentially be like the Manga "Detective Conan" (or as the US calls it: Case closed).
It's their shtick for the main character. The main character was a freelancer detective, turned into a child while investigating something he shouldnt have, now lives as a sort of adopted little brother with his former girlfriend and her dad who is an actual detective and solves cases.
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But here's the fun thing, your brain is incredibly flexible when you are that age. So your ability to learn and retain at the age of 8 would be significantly easier than it is as an adult. So yes if you put your mind to it, you could potentially be significantly smarter than you are as an adult.
Long story short this could easily 2x your education giving you genius level intelligence you'd get to retain even when you become an adult again.
This assumes not forgetting anything due to the age and body chemistry changes.
I could very well imagine the chemistry overriding your adult brain for cravings etc. -
This assumes not forgetting anything due to the age and body chemistry changes.
I could very well imagine the chemistry overriding your adult brain for cravings etc.Interesting point! I've often wondered how much chemistry/our endocrine system effects our personality. Especially by the time we hit puberty again, I assume we'd be acting like a horny teenager again regardless of our past lives.
That said it's worth mentioning that the title of the post directly states that we would have our current mind intact. So for the purposes of this thought experiment I'm going to assume all of our memories and thoughts would be completely intact, only our body chemistry will likely shift some of our drives and impulses.
