You’re offered $10 million to start your life over at age 10 — but you keep all your current memories. What’s your first move?
You’re offered $10 million to start your life over at age 10 — but you keep all your current memories. What’s your first move?
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10 yr old me with this knowledge might be dangerous
I would start a music label and write hundreds of kickass songs. Then I use the proceeds to buy the Internet. Then I take over the world.
Invest the whole 10 million in Amazon stock
I’d pay someone 10 million dollars to start my life over at 10 but keep all my memories tbh
So am i 10 year old millionaire orrrr…
I’d need a drink.
Deal. Two years to prevent my father’s death, then I can chill for seven more years until I meet my wife.
Education for sure and I’ll make sure my grades are super high so I can give my parents the life they deserve for taking care of me and to give a better life on my future family if I’m lucky to have one in the future
I mean, I’d pay ten million dollars for that experience, but hell. Time to invest a few million in 2001 Amazon & Apple
buy a few houses
All of the worst things in my life happened to me after 10. I don’t think I can go through it again. And I don’t think 10 year old me would be able to stop the worst of it.
Study harder, and don’t wait so long to tell my current partner my feelings for him. (We’ve liked each other since high school)
Never have another cigarette.. easier to quit at 10 than 66! Lol
Buying stocks and lands 💵
Tell my father to take care of his health and ensure he takes care of his health, I would want him to be there forever.
Blow it all and figure out what’s for supper.
Put that 10 mil into some sort of CD or stock to build interest, then savor the experiences of being young, be better at being active in friendships, and enjoy being young with no worries. Also transition sooner (but not medically at 10, cause it doesn’t work like that).
Though, it may be lower stakes for me because I’m only in my 20s
Am I going back in time or am I ten now?
Am I going backwards to age 10? Let’s see, that was 1978. I invest a crap ton in Microsoft. Or maybe Berkshire Hathaway. Eventually I’d move it all to Bitcoin and Bitcoin farming when it’s just starting out and doable.
I would also watch my diet and focus on healthy behaviors. If I get another chance, might as well make it worth it!
Do my homework
Eat less
Exercise consistently
Invest in big name corps and real estate
Tell my mother that my stepmom is abusing me.
Do I go back to 1982, or is it still 2025?
Wouldn’t do it. And this post made me realize how happy I actually am.
Homies, you forgot one thing. Your 10, you need to convince your parents to invest it.
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Invest in my self by eating healthy, exercising, get educated and saving my money until the time I need to use it or up until it becomes legal for me to invest in stocks and properties.
Oh honey, i’d do it for free.
This is such an interesting conundrum. I’d have to do everything pretty much the same to get the same (wonderful) memories: marry my husband, have my kids, live in the places we’ve lived. Lots of things I wouldn’t want to change, and lots of things that only happened because of not having lots of money. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the best thing I could do is not accept the money!
I would convince my dad I was from the future and tell him not to sell my grandmas house that is worth 4.5 million dollars now.
Leave my parents
The same thing we do every night pinky.
Try to take over the world.
Calling social services. Then I never again talk to my mother, and will begin seeking a happy life with my new oppotunity. Best part is, nobody needs to know anything about me, as I already have all the knowledge needed to fix myself and use my brain to full advantage.
And yes I will be making a lot of investments when possible, especially into EU independence which will pay me in the long run.
Keep totally silent about the money until I turn 16, leave home. Invest in Intel, Apple, Amazon at appropriate moments.
DO NOT GET MARRIED!
Hide the money from my mom, because she is TOXIC and narcistic.
If she found out about the money when I’m 10, I’d be broke by 11.
open up to my teachers at school and tell them whats actually going on at home to save myself. i cant imagine how different i’d be had i done this.
Run away from home
Exposing my brother for setting me up on breaking that nerf gun.
Bitcoin
Would I have the same kids? Then yes.
If not, it wouldn’t be worth it.
Am I back in time?
Is this the present and I’ve just got younger?
Have I been reincarnated? And I’ve awoken as Someone else?
Just need detail first
Perspective. Some of us are older than nearly all tech companies.
I’d invest in Silicon Valley tech as a venture capitalist at age 10. I’d be the world’s first trillionaire and I’d have Elon Musk deported.
I’d get a future-facing candidate to blow Ronald Reagan out of the water and put a final, decisive end to Evangelical Christianity and White Supremacy. All Confederate monuments destroyed and all textbooks corrected.
But seriously, I’d end the Cold War and make the world into Star Trek instead of Blade Runner (which is the direction we are going). Advanced microchips everywhere before Star Trek: The Next Generation even makes it to a pitch meeting.
Quit listening to my abusers that told me I was garbage, broken, unlovable, and the worst mistakes of their lives.
Get a lawyer and emancipate myself. Learn what happiness is, instead of it taking another 30 years.
You can keep your 10 mils, I’d pay litterally any price for that.
First move would be to start doing exercice to stop being thin like a shrimp. Then after a few weeks i’d wreck the nose of this fuckin bully.
After that i’d start living the life that should have been mine, and probably be more insistant when back in 2012 i told my dad to buy a hundred bucks in bitcoins for fun and he answered “yeah it’s cool and fun, but there’s no way it raises more than it have”
Hug mom and dad. Find friends. Go out and play. Read, ride my bike and wait for holidays. School, career, money is not and it is never going to be a problem. Help others will make me extremely happy.
Tell my uncle who molested me to fuck off and tell someone.
I wonder how many of these start your life over posts are written by people who don’t have kids.
Start betting heavy against the Cowboys in playoff games
Bitcoin
This is literally the offer of a lifetime, you’re offered essentially extra time with knowledge of the future and a commendable boost to your net worth only with the downside of having to redo some potentially avoidable negative events. First move.. ENJOY LIFE A BIT MORE! And maybe invest more in bitcoin and certain stocks.
I agree. Get to enjoy cartoons and books. Will try to do more sports. As a mature person I won’t be traumatized again by my mother. Will try to leave the country as soon as I turn 18.
Invest in Bitcoin and get a house.
I’d decline. I have a child. Worth more than 10m. I’d miss her everyday.
exercise daily
Five million buying apartments and houses during the 2008 crash. 2.5 million into Amazon. 2.5 million I to bit coin.
First thing is to keep the money safe until I can effectively use it. That really depends on how the money is transferred to me. Is it already in a bank? Is it a cheque? Cash somewhere hidden? Cash somewhere not hidden? Makes a big difference.
Gambling winnings are tax free in my country. Betting on the World Series every year, and Leicester to win the Prem in 15/16 is far more than enough to keep a low profile and not have auditors asking too many questions.
My wife sure would be upset but 10mil would help.
I guess she could drop me off at school with our children while I try and be the smartest kid in school for a change.
Two chicks at the same time.
First move? Invest early in tech stocks like Apple, Google, and Amazon and buy Bitcoin when it first appears. Set my future up for total financial freedom!
First move? Write down every major sports championship winner, stock market boom, and viral trend for the next 20 years then become the ‘kid genius’ who predicts the future 😅
Invest in Apple.
Ten million bucks in the early 1970s? That was serious money back then. I would be sweating for the next eight years until I had legal control of the money and hoping it kept up with inflation. I wouldn’t touch the 10M and would live frugally until I was in my thirties, reinvesting most of the interest and dividend income. Then I would retire comfortably. Sorry for being boring.
“No thanks.”
I have a family. Literally nothing is more important to me, and there’s no price I wouldn’t pay to protect them. Try to undo my kids? It’d be total war from me. Hard pass.
Same year?
Hire a lawyer and get emancipated.
Buy loads of bitcoin
Figure out how to hide $10 million from my family until I turn 18
develope everything before everyone does, take over the planet .
To pursue my crushes instead of thinking I’m not good enough.
To try extracurriculars such as robotics.
To use the trains earlier in my life to gain independence and not buy a car when I did
moving out from the pathological shithole which i lived in and play games till im 18
Do everything exactly the same up until this point, except bonus I now have $10mil!