hey Dan here and in this video I am answering a question from sonia and ENFP
in Australia about choosing the right career path for an ENFP if you're an
ENFP how do you figure out what is the right direction to go so Sonia says I'm
also an ENFP and relate to many of the topics of your videos what is the best
way for an ENFP to discover the career path that is right for them I am feeling
very doubtful on what path to choose and not being able to pick the right path
for me because I actually like to do a lot of different things and have trouble
coming to one decision because I always question whether that is the right
decision well Sonia I have news for you you are
not alone this is a huge ENFP struggle is we like to do a ton of different
things and I often hear from ENFP is that coming up with things they'd like
to do isn't very hard picking just one is where the real struggle comes in so
I'm gonna do my best in this video to share a strategy for getting more
knowledge and then choosing the right path for you so the first thing you want
to do is build up your knowledge the more you know the better decision you
can make and there are two categories of knowledge the first is knowledge about
yourself and you're gonna get this from a few different sources one of our
things like tests I mean if you're here and you know you're an ENFP you've
probably taken at least one personality test in your life so knowledge from
tests or knowledge from things that people have told you about yourself can
be really helpful the other type of self knowledge is from your experience and
this is where the ENFP tendency to do a lot of different things can actually be
really helpful because the more you try and fail the more knowledge you'll
actually gain about yourself the second type of knowledge is more general
knowledge about the opportunities that are available to you see if you don't
know about all the different careers available just in the world in general
or what the trends might be or the different kinds of businesses you could
build off your skill set well no matter how much you know about yourself you're
not going to be able to take yourself and then that business and put it
together right so you want to develop as much as you can about yourself that
self-knowledge is really important and then knowledge about all the different
opportunities out there heck there are now so many ways that you can earn a
great living in such niche endeavors that 3040 years
ago no one would have thought would be possible and this is all thanks to the
Internet and that so many people have a lot of money now and our board and we'll
pay you for all kinds of stuff so there are lots of different opportunities you
need to discover what those are and try to find the link between what you like
to do and what the opportunities are the next thing you want to do is to uncover
the reality of a profession or business before you jump into it one of the
things I hear with a lot of disappointment from enfps is they get
into a field like law or architecture based on what they thought the job would
be like and the reality is very different heck I almost became a lawyer
from that TV show of the practice I assume being a good lawyer was about
going in a court unprepared and then coming up with some crazy scheme at the
last minute that would help you get your client off and really be in a gray area
of legality it turns out if I hadn't become a lawyer especially something
like a corporate lawyer I probably would have one insane because a lot of the
reality now is just reading documents fact-checking going over things and
nothing like what I assume the job would actually be so before you commit years
of your life to something find real people doing that job and see if you can
spend a week shadowing them at least take them to lunch and ask about what
the day-to-day is like and get a real sense of it yes you could post on some
message board but the people who are probably on message boards responding
may not be the most accurate representation of the real successful
people in the profession so I'd really encourage you to find real people in the
flesh that you can meet up with and learn about what the profession is
really like so this stage you've probably taken some of that knowledge
about yourself some of the knowledge about opportunities come up with a few
different things you think you could do you've met with people in that
profession and you found out what it's really like I have something I call a
70% rule and a link to a video where I discuss this but the gist of it is if
you're 70 percent sure go for it try it out fail big time and then readjust heck
if you're 70 percent sure that a certain business is the right
direction for you go for it and if you fail guess what the next time you'll
probably be like 75 85 percent sure and be even more likely to succeed so go for
something give it at least a year or two see how it is for you and then adjust
from there now I'm gonna link to a free training I have called the life design
approach I'll have a card pop up and have it below in the description as well
this is a nine part email training where I share my best stories and advice about
designing your life figuring out what the heck you want to do and then turning
that dream into a reality so I'll link to that and I definitely encourage you
to try it out and if you are new to the channel my name is Dan this is dreams
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every week catch you in the next one soon bye for now