5 Life Lessons I Bet You Don’t Know

Life isn’t easy, and it’s a never-ending learning experience. Life lessons come from many different things, books, and experiences, and sometimes they can only be learned through personal experience.

The following list is meant to provide you with life lessons that will drastically improve your life if you follow them.

About a year ago, I lost the inspiration to write. So I turned to Quora, an online platform for answering questions. Just a few months later, I had 10 million content views and a space with 320K followers.

Why is this relevant, you might ask?

Because I followed the lessons below. After each lesson, I will explain why the lesson is relevant to my experience.

Just remember: You’ll try and you’ll fail. But sometimes, you’ll try and succeed.

1. Make Yourself Necessary and You Will Be Necessary

If you want to be successful, it’s imperative that you make yourself necessary. Unfortunately, most people are easily replaceable nowadays.

That’s why you need to do something that makes you irreplaceable. Invent something, become a leader in something, and you will succeed! Even if it’s something small, you’re still necessary for something.

I made myself necessary by starting my own space/travel blog. Writers from all around the world took to my space, contributing, writing, and asking questions. I took a one-week break from the space, and everything had plummeted: My audience engagement, my stats, etc. I know this sounds like something so small, but I found that I had made myself necessary.

2. Walk Your Own Path

There are always going to be people who try to discourage you, either by weighing you down, making you contemplate your decisions or by making you jealous. Don’t mind people and the standards they set for you, because you are your own person. It’s your game of life, not theirs.

There are always going to be better Quorans than me, and better writers than me, but I don’t let that discourage me. Instead, I let their work educate me. I learned from Quora more about writing than I could have ever expected.

3. Good Things Don’t Come Easy

If you want something or you want to live well in the long run, you’re going to have to work hard from it. The winning ticket to the lottery doesn’t just show up in your hand — at least, not for most people.

To have a good, happy life filled with love and friendship, you have to work hard. Luck isn’t what you should depend on when seeking success. Good things aren’t just going to come to you — you have to actually reach for them and earn them.

It took months for my space to reach 1,000 followers, and more time than that to reach a million views, but I kept trying different strategies until I ended up with something that worked.

4. Never Fail to Try More

Failure is something every human has to experience, at every stage of their life: Failing to pass a test as a student, failing to get a promotion as an adult, failing to accomplish a goal, etc.

Sometimes, when you’ve prepared and are so close to accomplishing a goal, you fail. And that’s something you have to live with. What you can’t live with, though, is failing to try again. That is a decision you can make and a decision that can change your life. The results will come, I guarantee it. It’s just a matter of when.

5. Your Education is Never Complete

You are always learning if you allow yourself to continue learning. Education is one of the most important things in our lives, whether it’s learning a new math formula, or reading this and learning a life lesson.

Regardless of how old you are, you must take into account that you always have more to learn and that what you learn is valuable. The more education you get, and the more learning you do, the better off you’ll be in the grand scheme of things.

Quora, as I said earlier, has taught me so much more about writing than I could have expected. And from simply reading my feed, I’m learning from Quora. I highly recommend actively looking for something to learn rather than waiting to find something that teaches you.

Thank you so much for reading. I really hope these roadsigns on the highway of life help you out. Best of luck, and I wish you all the best in using these life lessons.