Like even when I was- I don’t know- like 17 years old, some of my friends were starting to get tattoos like, “Man, you got to get a tattoo.” And I said, “You know, I think when I’m 90, I won’t want that tattoo.” And they just looked at me weird like, “When you’re 90? [bleep] dude, who cares about when you’re 90 man? I want this tattoo now. I think it’s cool. Yin Yang man.” And I’m like, “No, I think when I’m old, it’s not going to look good.” So for some reason, I’ve just- I’ve always been in service of my future self.
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Becoming a Superhuman | Derek Sivers The man just said, “We’ll see.” That’s it. I love that story. Jonathan: I love it. Derek: Because something I think is a core thing about myself is that I’ve always had a very long-term focus. <span>Like even when I was- I don’t know- like 17 years old, some of my friends were starting to get tattoos like, “Man, you got to get a tattoo.” And I said, “You know, I think when I’m 90, I won’t want that tattoo.” And they just looked at me weird like, “When you’re 90? [bleep] dude, who cares about when you’re 90 man? I want this tattoo now. I think it’s cool. Yin Yang man.” And I’m like, “No, I think when I’m old, it’s not going to look good.” So for some reason, I’ve just- I’ve always been in service of my future self. So I think that if you looked back at whatever you were worried about five years ago, like if you were to go read your old diaries from five years ago talking about everything that was Summary
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