These Are the 5 Best Decisions I Made in My Life

And the lessons you can learn from them

You have no way of knowing how a decision will impact your life. If you could foresee the future, it wouldn’t be a decision, it would be a choice without risk. But, at the very moment you make it, a decision is like gambling.

Still, you can learn from every decision you ever made, hindsight is a great teacher. But it’s also helpful to learn from other people’s decisions, just so you don’t have to learn every life lesson through experience.

At 32, I still have many more decisions to make in my life. But these are the best I’ve made so far. I hope you learn something from them.

If I had to pin down the single best decision I ever made in my life, I think this would be it. For one simple reason: it’s about more than just myself.

I started experimenting with a plant-based diet in late 2014, motivated by a couple of friends and my desire to try new things. And I discovered something much more powerful than I expected: empathy.

When I stopped eating animals, I started feeling like one with the planet. Like I was doing my part to a fairer, kinder world, where each being lives and lets others live too.

The major lesson here is not that you should become vegetarian. Rather, I would like you to keep these two ideas in mind:

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