What would you do if you were an 8 year old again, with your current mind (including memories and skills)?
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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 go insane
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Back then, I assume. Being 8 today with the knowledge you have now would be fucking terrifying and mostly hopeless.
Yes, I meant back then.
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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?
Play a bit less video games, focus harder on skateboarding and learn guitar earlier (started when I was 11).
Once I hit high school, I'd focus more so I could go to school at the end for electrical engineering. Once graduated, I'd start building amps and pedals for guitar and bass.
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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?
Talk my mom into putting us into a better school. Cry because I have to be a kid again. Be an academic hyperachiever, then get ridiculously early onset Alzheimer's at like 30 years old.
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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 think that, while making money would be a primary goal, we would start to act like ourselves again and end up falling back into childish behaviors because that's what the others would expect of us, and we'd just have that freedom.
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Ok, so now you got me wondering how creepy it is to start dating in junior high with adult brains.
Theres some anime with that premise
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Theres some anime with that premise
This does not surprise me at all.
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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?
Let's see so it's '02, which means I'm powerless to try to stop 9/11. That's pretty much my only time travel plan, it's my "kill baby Hitler", so that sucks.
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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?
Play ragnarok online.
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Totally agree. At first, they’d think you’re a genius, but you’d only be a genius as an 8 yo. Unless you kept progressing and getting smarter, eventually your age would catch up to your intelligence and you’d just be… well you.
Also, being 8 with the memories and experience of an adult would probably keep us from doing all the dumbass shit we did as kids. Some of it could’ve killed is, but I’m betting most of it was pretty rad at the time.
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.
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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]In 1976 give mom and dad a list of large corporations to buy stock in for for my Christmas and birthday gifts. Well into adulthood, buy Bitcoin.
Tell my grandmother to go to her doctor and start cancer treatments. -
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 would wanna see what all this IRC stuff is all about
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In 1976 give mom and dad a list of large corporations to buy stock in for for my Christmas and birthday gifts. Well into adulthood, buy Bitcoin.
Tell my grandmother to go to her doctor and start cancer treatments.1979 for me and that is exactly what I'm thinking.
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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?
Estrogen. If that plan fails (and it probably would) then DIY orchiectomy. And if that plan fails (and it might) or is otherwise counteracted then I would die by my own hand.
The situation of my eight-year-old self is antithetical to the being of my current mind. My knowledge and understanding would force me to take certain paths and many of them lead to situations beyond my make-it-stop threshold. Is it better to walk to one's doom unknowingly, or to be dragged beaten ragged and screaming into the confinement of hell?
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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.
Fair point, but this assumes I’m relatively intelligent as a middle-aged adult. For the likelihood of that, I’ll refer you to George Carlin’s timeless message about the average person!
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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.
