# Six reverse advice

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2016/09/28/six-reverse-advice/
- Published: 2016-09-28T13:32:54+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

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**1. Before you believe — learn how to pray**
Belief is a permanent state rooted
in prayer. The other way around, if the prayer is rooted in belief, you’re only 
playing a trick on life, a way of cheating the experience by removing yourself from
it, by proclaiming your divine ancestry and complaining about the temptation of 
the world. Mind that life will always outbid you if you try to trick it. Belief 
is rooted in prayer because prayer is how your ego speaks to your identity, a search
for a reply, a scream of the pain of being aware of your solitude.

**2. Before you shut up — learn how to talkBeing silent doesn’t make you a wise 
human. Just a silent one. Only when you open your mouth and bear the consequences
of your speech, does your silence gain any value.

**3. Before you earn — learn how to spendMost of those who squander fortunes fall
into the trap of wasting because they don’t know how to spend, that is why with 
consistence and persistence one can learn what worth means which is learning how
to spend.

**4. Before you think — learn to write**
By learning to write you will enter a self
discovery process. Writing is the true way of externalizing your inner voice, not
speaking! And when you read what you write, you will start to make more sense of
yourself. That in turn will help you think better because your identity will be 
more silent in your head.

**5. Before you try — learn to give up**
Give up claims! Give up expectations! Give
up control! Only after — try. Trying without learning to give up can be extremely
tiresome.

**6. Before you live — learn to die**
Acknowledge that life is not eternal. Pay 
attention to each and every day, and don’t forget you’re speeding into a sudden 
end, don’t forget that your generation too shall pass like all those before it. 
This acknowledgement is the true drug that makes one high on life.

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7. Love me, I dare you,

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