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50 Things Everyone Under 50 Years Old Needs to Know

Actually, it’s not your age that matters the most; it’s your understanding of these things.

Iva Ursano
4 min readJan 22, 2025
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I want to preface that life is beautiful and full of adventure, lovely people, amazing experiences and joy. Don’t ever forget that.

I also want to say that life is full of challenges, shitty people, tragic moments and frustrations.

Life is great and hard. Period.

And while I’ve only been tripping on this planet for 62 years, I’ve learned a lot of stuff. Some things I’ve learned the hard way. I hope no one has to learn things the hard way because sometimes, that sucks.

A lot.

So, I’m going to share 50 things with you now so that you don’t have to learn hard lessons. However, I do think that as humans, sometimes we need to learn things the hard way to shake us up, wake us up and smarten us up.

50 Things Everyone Under 50 Needs to Know

Without further ado…

  1. Not everyone who smiles at you is your friend.
  2. People will treat you with the same level of respect you have for yourself.
  3. If you want to learn and grow, take more chances.

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