Lifestyle Change
When I was in highschool (aged 14-17), guidance counselors used to ask us every year what we wanted to be when we'd grow up. Based on our answers, we'd look at different fields of employment and then decide what courses we should take. Highschool. Does a fourteen year old really know what they want to do with their life? I thought I did, but changed my mind once I got to University. And frankly, I have changed my mind a few times since then. But this idea that you're bread from your early teens to become something for the rest of your life, I think is pretty prevalent all over the world. And that idea, and recent developments in Icelandic politics, sort of inspired this post.

Stand-up Comic  Mayor
Jon Gnarr has been famous in Iceland for many years. He hosted a radio show for a long time where they'd prank-call famous people across the globe. Quite certain they once managed to get through to the president of France, and all sorts of other nonsense. He's been in plenty of Icelandic sitcoms, movies, and commercials. This year, he decided to run for mayor of Reykjavik. Named his new party "The Best Party". He won.
Perhaps what you do with your life as a young adult, or the courses you take at University, don't really in the long-run. If you can go from stand-up comedian, to running a capital (regardless of it being of a very small country), surely lifestyle changes are easy to come by.

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To This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBW4mPzv6E