If I were 22 today

When I was 22 I was that annoying combination of confident and naïve. I was confident that the world was going to bow down before me as I bent it to my will.

At the same time, I was naïve enough to believe I knew it all and that no one could tell me anything. It was an unsustainable state of being, the consequences of which I have lived with every day ever since.

If I were 22 today I’d want to maintain that sense of having the world at my feet because it’s in this place that big dreams and oppor...