Yet another advice to kids

Sharon posted some advice to the youth (although she herself is young). She suggested being independent, with no fear of failure, which is excellent advice. I'd like to give some more "concrete" tips to kids or myself in childhood (if I have the chance to tell that me). First things first, the following suggestions can't make you more competitive than your peers or perform better in exams. or win the girl make you fascinated. They make your everyday life more exciting and fancy even if you're not rich or powerful. They're neither expensive (so you can achieve these goals even if not born into a rich family) nor painful. What you need is to know them, and keep doing them. OK, here we go.

1. Find a sport, enjoy it, and be good at it. Sport is a way to talk with your body, with the physical world, express yourself, and communicate with people.

2. Be honest, especially to yourself. Living honestly in Chinese society looks stupid and clumsy. Never mind. Being honest is the starting point of the path to discovering the true self. And without knowing who you truly are, you have no way to be happy, no matter how successful you're in others' eyes.

3. Appearance counts. Learn how to dress. Fix teeth.

4. Live in both the Chinese and English worlds. Learn with them (instead of learning them), express with them, sing in them, write in them. Thanks to the Internet, you can do this without studying abroad.

5. Draw what you see, and what you feel. Yes, you have a mobile phone with a millions-pixel camera. However, that's not what YOU see.