Regret is an eternal question you will never have an answer to. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection, but regret is the thing we should fear most. But I'm consumed with regret for the things I didn't do, the choices I didn't make, the things I didn't say. "I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. The following poignant passage - which followed an anecdote about Noah missing an opportunity to ask out a girl he liked - speaks for itself. There's nothing worse than regret for what you didn't do. I realized people would pay me to buy their food because I was willing to run for it," Noah writes. Noah turned this into a business, charging people a percentage and then choosing the customers who offered the best price. His classmates then started to approach him to buy them stuff. In school, Noah said he was fast and had "no pride," so he would run to the food line as soon as lunch started so he would have the first pick. Use your natural abilities to create opportunities. You'll have a few bruises and they'll remind you what happened, and that's OK, but after a while the bruises fade, and they fade for a reason - because now, it's time to get up to some shit again." 5. It's better to take it, spend some time crying, then wake up the next day and move on. If you think too much about the asskicking your mother gave you, or the asskicking life gave you, you'll stop pushing the boundaries or breaking the rules. I never let the memory of something painful prevent me from trying something new. I remember the thing that caused the trauma, but I don't hold onto the trauma. "I was blessed with another trait I got from my mother: her ability to forget the pain in her life. Even after enduring "hidings" (South African slang for beatings from your parents), Noah would continue his mischievous behavior. One time, he even set his stepfather's garage on fire, which then spread to a nearby house. Noah says that he was a naughty child growing up. Focus on new experiences, rather than pain. Related: 11 African Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the Business Landscape 4. If that's all I've accomplished, I've done enough.'" "'Because,' she would say, 'even if he never leaves the ghetto, he will know that the ghetto is not the world. Yet she was preparing me to live a life of freedom long before we knew freedom would exist," Noah writes. "There was no reason to think it would end. Think beyond your current circumstances.Īpartheid made certain activities, such as skating, nearly impossible for black people in South Africa, but Noah's optimistic mother, Patricia, didn't let oppression stop her from showing her son the "things for white people."
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