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?
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.
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Am I eight years old now in 2025, or eight years old way back then?
Back then, I assume. Being 8 today with the knowledge you have now would be fucking terrifying and mostly hopeless.
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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?
Gosh, I don't even know. To be back in that traumatizing household?
I wouldn't make it very long, I don't think.
Maybe I'd steal some money and run away to a different country before 9/11 makes everything harder.
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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]I am sure I would start out trying to excel and impress people but I'd very quickly become depressed and lazy because I can't relate to anyone my age and school would be stupidly easy. I'd probably play more videogames
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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]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.
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Ok, so now you got me wondering how creepy it is to start dating in junior high with adult brains.
that would be wierd. or dont date til adult hood, unless there is memory wipe with de-aging process.
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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?
probably planning to rectify academic track record first, assuming the future remains the same you left it? you would make different choices so you have better outcome in adulthood, careerwise, or relationship wise.(because you know which stem fields you suck and want to pursue and you are failing class, probably changing that, or choose a different major)
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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 would change the professional path, and I would stay most probably single to avoid all the energy lost in that "game".
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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
