Being relatively young I get really excited when someone gives advice that they wish they realized earlier (as if I'm privy to some unique and incredibly useful information), but I've now realized the huge plethora of information that I wish I could share with the "me of 2 years ago". After years of reading reddit, hacker news, etc, I must have come across hundreds of similar advice threads, and yet even now I feel like there are just so many things I figured out way too late. Our brains have a horrible self satisfaction mechanism.
Not that this devalues your advice at all (I have similar problems, so I'm incredibly grateful for the link). Just an observation.
There's also a lot of bad advice out there. So even if you find some good advice, it won't help you because you can't pick it out of the bad advice.
I'm about to launch a new website (as a personal project; it's got nothing to do with SI or CFAR) about naturalistic views of the world, and that website will contain links to engaging and accessible books and articles about naturalistic approaches to:
What links do other LWers recommend on these topics? To show you what kinds of articles I have in mind, here's what I have so far:
Seeking Truth:
The Self & Free Will:
Ethics and Society:
Happiness and Self-Help:
Meaning and Spirituality: