Think for yourself and question authority...any of you take this advice to heart?
I have in the past couple of decades, not so much earlier in life. I was raised on the notion that if you were a good boy everything would pretty much work out for you. Boy was THAT wrong. Also, that you can trust your parents, mentors, teachers, role models, authority figures, etc to know WTF they are doing. Boy was THAT wrong.
Now the problem is that I'm not infallible either so I'm not really mad at those people for failing me, but fail me they did. I was operating for the first quarter century of my existence on the seemingly reaonsable notion that the people who were raising, nurturing and mentoring me had at least half a clue, and certainly more than me. At least I was right that they loved me, there's that. But they didn't teach me about how to function in the Real World, or how the Real World worked, or how reality works. At. All.