Hey Dan here and in this video I'm answering a question from a
nineteen-year-old INFP about how do you choose the right college or university
major and in this video I'm not going to speak to specific majors like if you are
this personality you should major in this instead I'm gonna give you three
approaches for picking your own majors so really whether you're an INFP an ENFP
or anyone else you can use these three approaches to choose the right major for
you the first approach is really simple I
just think about what you would love to study and give yourself and your
judgment a little more credit when I chose to
study psychology at university I had no clue I would be doing what I do now I
didn't know coaching was even a thing until my fourth year of university
none of this future was on my plate I did not know where it would take me but
I knew I was really interested in psychology and I just wanted to study it
and I found this is often true with myself and with other people with people
I've worked with is your unconscious often knows or is drawn to something
before you can consciously explain why you want to do it so if there's
something that you've always wanted to major in if when you think what do I
want a major and you just think psychology or philosophy or I'd love to
study history then maybe give that more credit than you are right now and assume
that there's a reason you have that intuition and that draw towards that
major the second approach if you're really not sure what you want to be
doing in your life and by the way that is totally normal and most interesting
people don't know what they want to do and often don't know what they want to
do 10 20 30 years later after college as well so there's nothing wrong with that
but if you're really unsure you could think about the type of education that
would compliment you and perhaps lend to better thinking and better ways of
thinking there's a lot of debate whether university is worth it that people will
say things like you can learn everything online now there's no point going to
university and that it can be true in cases and it towards the end of the
video I'm gonna share something specifically for American viewers here
but I've also heard it said that the point of university is not to teach you
certain things but to train you how to learn and how to think and so I've met
people who say studied engineering and they've never become engineers but
by studying engineering or physics or math they learn to structure their
thoughts very logically they learn to think in a process and that has really
served them well in building a company or an investing or in working for
themselves in some other capacity the same can be said about majors like
psychology philosophy or history what you learn in those as facts are pretty
useless now right we all have an encyclopedia in our hands at all times
knowing facts is useless but perhaps by studying philosophy it will train you to
think differently and that skill could be extremely valuable in any form of
business or any other career you end up pursuing down the road now before I go
on to the third consideration one thing I would say for anyone watching an
American this applies a bit to Canada and some other countries as well where
there's some significant tuition cost is if you're really unsure and the original
question sent in from the INFP was that they really aren't sure there's nothing
coming to mind that they'd want to study if you're really not sure and you live
in a country where there's gonna be a lot of debt to go to school I might
consider holding off on that maybe go travel maybe work for a few years and
then come back and decide if you're over in Europe or somewhere else with
relatively cheap or free education then I'd say follow this advice jump into
something and then take it from there but I would not recommend racking up a
hundred thousand dollars in debt when you're really not sure of what you want
to do next and the third consideration for choosing your college major is to
think about what skill or knowledge area could serve you in a wide range of
fields I majored in psychology and that worked out really well for me I did not
know I would become the person I am now where I talk about psychology a lot but
I figured hey if I go into marketing knowing psychology is pretty good if I
want to be in human what do they call it when they treat people like cattle Human
Resources that said if I wanted to be in Human Resources knowing about people and
about psychology and group dynamics would be really valuable just about any
field I would end up going into I thought hey I'm really interested in
psychology this is fun for me to study and I'm pretty sure there'll be some
value to this so look at areas you could study and where maybe that you're gonna
learn a skill or an area of knowledge that's probably valuable in the matter
you do I filmed other videos on this in the past in terms of valuable skills to
be learning in 2019 but if you're not sure things like communication is
extremely valuable whether it's interpersonal communication marketing PR
anything like that anything involving people motivation some kind of
psychology these are all very valuable skills and areas of knowledge to develop
and so if you're really not sure what to do but you're interested in them and
that sounds like something you like to learn I might suggest starting with
something like that as your foundation so those are the three considerations
for choosing a university or college major if you are new to the channel my
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