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8 pieces of advice I would give to young Johan

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 3:29 am
by jrineakter
Well hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of “Walk with Johan”. It’s a pleasure, as usual, to have you with me for this little walk, for this little stroll. And today, it’s a personal development episode in which I’m going to tell you what advice I would give to young Johan.

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So the context today, for this little stroll, is that I'm going to be 40 soon. Yes, in a few days, I'll be 40. Well, this is the first time, to be completely honest with you, that I feel such a change. I am well aware of the fact that age and going to a decade is something symbolic. Between 39 and 40 and 41, there is not a big difference, so I know it is symbolic, but going from an age that starts with a 3, to going... well, to an age that starts with a 4, well for me, it makes a big difference actually.

It's hard to explain and I know we all experience it differently, but I really feel like I'm moving to the side of the old, really moving to the side of the slightly older people. Again, I don't know, it can't be explained, it's symbolic, but when I see an age that starts with a 3, my unconscious brain classifies it in the youth category; when I see an age that starts with a 4, well I don't quite classify it in the youth category anymore.

So I know this will make a number of you smile, but again, we all experience things differently. I'm not stressed and I'm not sad, time passes and that's completely normal, but I have this slightly weird feeling, in my opinion.

But this weird feeling, to the extent uk whatsapp number data that I'm starting to move to the side of the elders, to the side of people a little older, well suddenly, I feel rather legitimate in giving some advice to a 20-year-old. When you're 30, you say to yourself: "Well, why would I give him advice?" We feel less legitimate. Today, I feel more legitimate.

So what I decided to do is give some advice, I chose 8 in a very subjective way, to the 20-year-old Johan. So I imagine the 20-year-old Johan who would be next to me and to whom I would give 8 pieces of advice. Obviously, it's subjective because during these 40 years of life, I've had hundreds of experiences, I've learned lots of things, I've made hundreds of mistakes. And I'm certainly going to leave some experiences, some pieces of advice, aside because they didn't come to me spontaneously, but that's okay, I'm just going to list 8 rather general pieces of advice that came to me spontaneously when I prepared this episode.