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RE: You can do anything - and other lies

in Self Improvement3 years ago

I think that's a good attitude. I honestly think one of the big problems today comes from people who were taught to “do what they enjoy doing.” I know I was taught that when I was a kid. If you find a job that you enjoy, it never feels like working. The problem is that we actually need to make money. The best we can hope to do is find a job that we don't hate, that we can make money at, and that we are capable of doing. That's a tough lesson to learn. You really can't do everything.

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“do what they enjoy doing.”

This is also a problem because often, to do the things we enjoy, there are a whole lot of things that are needed as support that we won't enjoy. Nothing is "standalone" in skill development. On top of this, if there are things that we enjoy, in order to keep doing it we have to maintain in other areas, meaning we don't enjoy that part of it or, too much of the enjoyable will degrade us in ways that are not enjoyable. All of life is a spectrum of experience and we can't control much of it, if any.

That's a good point. Unless you're running a hot dog stand or a banana stand or something, you're going to need to learn some other skills in order to do what you enjoy. Nobody teaches you that.