when i was 19 i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life literally not a clue i was in college
at the time just because my parents pressured me to go and i was studying subjects that i wasn't
even interested in barely passing my classes eventually i ended up taking a gap year to work
and try to figure things out this decision turned out to be one of the best choices in my life
because of two things if you currently feel lost in life then you really should be doing these two
things if you ever want to figure things out so pay close attention the first thing you have to
do is work on your fundamentals there are certain skills that will drastically increase your chances
of success at whatever it is that you want to do later in life so it's always a good idea to
spend some time honing these skills if you don't really know what you should be doing in the big
picture see when i dropped out of college i ended up working in the world of sales i basically just
walked around and talked to people for like 10 hours a day and because of this i ended up honing
my social skills and i also learned how to work my butt off these two things eventually allowed
me to find success later in life when i realized that my passion was teaching and creating content
it was actually a good thing that i didn't know what i wanted to do until later in my life
right because let's say i had full clarity back when i was 16 years old back when i was just a shy
awkward kid who played video games all day let's say i knew that i wanted to become a youtuber back
then the chances of me succeeding would have been much much lower at least tenfold because back then
my social skills were terrible so i wouldn't have been able to write and speak well back then my
teaching skills were non-existent so i wouldn't have been able to teach well and to top all of
that off back then i didn't have a good work ethic so there's no way i would have been able
to commit 10 to 20 hours every week to creating videos if my 16 year old self had embarked on this
journey back then he would have probably spent a whole year creating just a handful of videos
which would have probably received only a couple dozen views he would have then felt upset about
the lack of results and then he would have lost motivation for the entire project thinking that
maybe this wasn't something that he was so passionate about after all see the thing is in
order for you to succeed at something that you are passionate about you do need to see some degree
of progress and success or else you will lose motivation pretty fast now i'm not talking about
like a viral video on your first try but maybe like a couple hundred or a couple thousand views
after making 10 videos which is why it's always a good idea to work on your fundamentals first
so that when you do figure out what you're passionate about you have a much higher chance
of actually seeing some sort of success which will end up motivating you to do more work which will
make you even more successful now at this point in time you're probably wondering okay what are
the fundamental skills well they basically fall under three categories your goal should
be to find work or experiences that would help you develop as many of these skills as possible
first you got the work ethic skills because you won't be able to succeed at whatever you're
passionate about unless you know how to work for long periods of time on that specific thing
so this includes things like increasing your focus being able to work your butt off for hours being
able to handle rejection patience and emotional regulation second you have the digital skills
which relates to anything that would allow you to create content online because everything is online
nowadays it doesn't matter what your passion might be chances are you'll need to do something online
with that passion in order to succeed so this includes things like being able to grow on social
media platforms creating websites any form of film art editing and marketing in general and finally
there are the social skills the better you are at making friends getting your thoughts across and
working with others the more success you'll see this is a must-have for any sort of business or
career path that you eventually want to go down this includes things like charisma attraction
persuasion skills working with a team writing and even how fluent you are with certain languages
you see the world is eventually going to have one shared language in the future
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do if you are lost in life is to gather as many new experiences as possible when i was working in
sales i was exposed to hundreds of new things i interacted with thousands of people i went
into their homes and learned about their lives i had different roles in my company i started off
focused solely on the sales and then my focus became teaching and it eventually evolved into
leading a team and over time i started to realize that the part that i enjoyed the most out of all
these new experiences was training people this is something that i would have never guessed that
i would enjoy it was something that i stumbled upon only because i exposed myself to hundreds
of different experiences and chances are you have multiple hidden passions like this in your life as
well the only catch is that you got to explore the world in order to stumble upon these things so if
you spent your entire life in school or if you've been spending the last couple of years at the same
job then you really need to get out there and try out new things if you ever want to figure out what
it is that you want to do go get a part-time job in a retail store go work on a construction site
go volunteer at a soup kitchen try out things that offer completely new experiences so that
you can increase your chances of finding something that you are actually interested in maybe when you
start working construction you realize you love managing projects maybe when you work in retail
you realize you love chatting with customers maybe when you volunteer in the soup kitchen you realize
you like cooking for others you only need to spend a couple of weeks doing these things in order to
be exposed to the dozens of small experiences that come with them this gives you enough time to spot
any hints as to where your passions might lie all while helping you build up fundamental skills at
the same time and that's basically what you should be doing if you are lost in life you
need to expose yourself to as many new experiences as possible all while building up your fundamental
skills so that when you do figure things out you'll have a much higher chance of success
this is what worked for me and i hope it works for some of you as well besides that guys stay tuned
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