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Donβt worry it will be over soon.
Feed your mind, stay flexible (yoga), learn how to plan, but more importantly how to readjust.
Great question!
How much would you pay for it?
There are two main scenarios: Preventative advice, and Advice when something has happened. For me as a teenager, i struggled with advice after something had gone wrong. I'm reading the lists below and wondering how I might have wanted to hear it
Go to parties, because of course you will, but dont get fucked up on drink and drugs, and keep a small medical kit handy (bandages, steriliser, whatever else).
You can enjoy everyone's company and you'll definitely get the chance to be a hero one sesh.
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Doesn't matter, they won't listen.
NEVER respect your elders. None of them have earned it.
Easy to say from this seat, I wonder what the next few generations will complain about for the rest of us. I'm sure we're fucking stuff up so bad right now that we don't even realize. There's also plenty we are fucking up right now.
I am in fact saying that as a teenagers' elder.
Open a free brokerage account now and buy an index fund. Only index funds and even if it is $20 or $4 a month keep investing in index funds. Fidelity has several with no fees. Google what an index fund is. Don't ever gamble on a regular stock, it's basically gambling and not worth it.
I thought I was too poor for the "stock market" but I was an idiot and now I'm a much older still-broke idiot who is never going to get to retire.
Also start saving for retirement now. Open a Roth IRA and fill it with index funds.
I know this sounds ridiculous and stupid and not fun but seriously preparing for your financial future is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself. I wish I had.
Don't be me kids.