But also recognize that going to school from an early age until we’re twenty-two wired us with a quarter system attention span. Every three months , four months, we expect a two-week break and then a whole new curriculum to learn. Every three months, the alarm goes off: Hey, it’s time for something new. It takes years for that alarm to shut up, to adjust to the pace of adult life.
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At some point when you’ve tried enough careers and none seems to fit, rather than look for yet another career, you start to think the problem is inside you.
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The stereotype is that domineering parents push their kids to succeed, killing their children’s love for whatever they’re studying. But the opposite was far more common—young people who were given too much leeway by parents afraid of being overbearing, when their children really, needed help in identifying what was important them.
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The right question is, How can I find something that moves my heart, so that the inevitable crap storm is bearable.
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The same goes for figuring out your place in life. It’s not a puzzle that can be figured out on paper. You have to do something, see if it works, and learn from it.
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In other words, if you don’t like the Question (What do you do?), maybe it’s partly because you don’t like your answer.
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… and she’s found that true freedom comes from the confidence she can live within her means, whatever those means may be.
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She warned me that many people use the dream-job-or-nothing goal as a way ensuring their dreams are never challenged by reality— by hoping for too much, they can preserve their dream as a perfect fantasy.
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It’s about people who’ve dared to be honest with themselves.
(Answer to the question in the title about life or career.)
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Americans might have bigger cars and larger grass lawns than the rest of the world, but we certainly aren’t happier, or more content. On that front we’re terrible role models. You’d never follow an American’s prescription for happiness. For the same reason you’d never buy a snow- blower that was made and tasted in Jamaica
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The misconception that our life doesn’t begin until we find an answer, when in fact our failed attempts often establish why we will find our future “answer” so meaningful, i.e contrast to our past.
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My great-uncle in China talks about the secret life force. I’ve got a gas. But how to you light it? What’s the match?
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