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Was at an event yesterday which was centred around physio and medical management of elite athletes, one of the speakers was Dr Steve Peters, the shrink who works with the GB cycle team. A question that he asked us was:

Pretend you are around 100yrs old and you have only 20 seconds to live. A child comes up to you and asks you what they should do with their life. What do you tell them?


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:19 am
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"Don't die old."

Grandfather Nutt, aged 92.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:21 am
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Don't be a slave to possessions.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:21 am
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Don't waste the last 20 seconds off your life telling other people what to do?


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:21 am
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enjoy 🙂


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:21 am
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Log on to stw and hope there's a big hitter/oracle to argue with.

You can type a lot in 20s.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:21 am
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apart from:

"ever seen a fully grown man naked?"
"oh my good god tom cruise was right!"
"i'm..... dying..... tell my wife..... I....."

?


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:24 am
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Think for yourself.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:25 am
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The only thought that would provoke would be "what a shit question to ask" (Dr Peters, not the child)


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:27 am
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to be honest, i'm naturally suspicious of anyone who lives to 100, I just assume that they've led a pretty healthy and boring life, so I wouldn't want to listen to their advice. Who the hell wants to live for 100 boring years?


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:27 am
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Ummmm.... errr.... welll... errr... Okay... right... you know.... balls.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:28 am
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Open your heart and your mind to the endless possibilities that the universe will place in your path

Or

Never buy an orange 5


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:29 am
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money is not the only way to be rich.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:30 am
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Can't believe no one has suggested.....

I know the answer, I know the answer! I know what tyres for.....
*Fades in to eternity......*


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:33 am
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[b]Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.[/b]

Josephine Baker last words

The famed starlet was reportedly attempting to seduce a man several decades younger than she was. She died of a stroke later that night.

[url= http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words ]http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words[/url]


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:34 am
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Learn to dance !!!


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:35 am
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What Samuri said + trust your instincts


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:36 am
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"get a penis, i need you to write down my last wobblebutshake.. i dont want my last words to be silly. VAGINA. quick... hurry...."


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:36 am
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i have heard a little about his approach, though I suspect they are not letting much of it out!?

Interested in the question, guess the context was, what you do with your life, purpose, meaning etc?

What was his answer?

Oh and my answer "Ride your bikes as much as you can" of course.


 
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"See, I told you I was ill"


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:38 am
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wear sunscreen


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:41 am
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"Smash up the system"

or

"Speak up son, I'm a bit deaf"


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:43 am
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"Piss off and pester someone else off you irritating little shizzle,oops I've wet myself again.Who are you?Where am I?This were all fields when I were a kid.Do you want a wurthers original?"


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:44 am
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enjoy it? simple really.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:45 am
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His answer was "it doesn't matter."


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:57 am
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Do stuff, be nice, don't have regrets.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 9:58 am
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I'd send them the link to this.....

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"Love, be loved and enjoy yourself, it's later than you think."


 
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Follow the path less trodden


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 10:18 am
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14:15 at Haydock, tell your Dad to put everything on number 4.

His answer was "it doesn't matter."
Nice answer, presumably because they won't listen? Youngsters never do.


 
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"You're standing on my oxygen pipe"


 
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His answer was "it doesn't matter."

Did he literally mean "it doesn't matter what you do with your life", or "it doesn't matter what I tell you you should do with your life"?


 
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In the words of the Butthole Surfers...

The funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done... And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, will you be sure and tell her SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!

😀


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 10:43 am
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Father Christmas isn't real.


 
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before I read all the replies...

"love unconditionall, bring peace and joy to those around you. compete, work and contribute to the best of your abilities"


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 11:49 am
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http://www.emptyplatitudes.com/


 
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Father Christmas doesn't exist.


 
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"I'm sorry, what was that my dear?
"No, you'll have to speak up, I'm a bit deaf you see.
"Oh, right. What do do with your life eh? Well..."


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 12:01 pm
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Wear sun screen.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 12:01 pm
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What do you tell them?

"Will you piss off, I've only got 20 seconds left. Fifteen now, argh!"


 
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"pull your trousers up young man, you look like a hippy, get a haircut!"


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 12:06 pm
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D'oh!


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 12:17 pm
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Log on to STW and post a thread about Big Hitters/back doors/Internet bullying


 
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The treasure is buried under urrggghhh.


 
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There is another skywalker


 
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Never stop learning. There is a reason you have two ears and only one mouth.


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 1:13 pm
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Wear sun screen

Baz!! I love that!

As to the original question?

"Back off! can't you see I'm with a laydeeee"


 
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Always make sure you're down for a share of the gross, never the net

Never start a land war in south east Asia


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 1:16 pm
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Baz!! I love that!

🙄 Mary Schmich!!

[url= http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-sunscreen-column,0,4054576.column ]Schmich, Mary. "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young." Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997. [/url]


 
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So cruel Gee. 🙂


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 1:34 pm
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Mary Schmich!!

Yeah, but I don't love that. I love the Baz one.
yaprick


 
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Buy a hat - People should wear more hats.

More seriously, life's for living not shopping.


 
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If someone shouts woodcock, hit the deck!


 
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"42"


 
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Child, I shall tell you the secret to ensuring a life of comfort, luxury, and care-free abandon. You simply need to ensure that, at the first possible opportunity, you.........

*THUD*


 
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"tomorrow holds no promise, live life while you can"

or

"you're adopted"


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 1:47 pm
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Trust me on the sunscreen...

Curse you drac.


 
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"point finger and wags"

"You throw that brick you little..."


 
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Curse you drac.

Not Drac. Mary Schmich, Baz and/or someone called "yaprick" (though I can't seem to find that version on Google).


 
Posted : 18/11/2011 2:17 pm