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the key is what what do you want to be
in life
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I know adults ask students that all the
time so what do you want to be when you
grow up and I think it's an unfair
question because you don't know what the
choices are
if their adult asks you that question I
would say hey let's go to our restaurant
and have them not give us the menu and
then let's and then the waiter comes up
and says so what do you want I don't
know what's on the menu that's not a
fair question and so for a student I
think it's really hard to choose because
you don't know what the choices are so
here's what I recommend
next time you go to into a bookstore or
or a library notice what part of the
bookstore that you always go to
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oh I would bet when you go to the
bookstore you don't go to every single
section equally there are parts of a
bookstore that are naturally more
interesting to you you know you might
always go to these three sections of the
library because that's the stuff that is
really cool or interesting to you and
notice that about yourself because
that's kind of who you are these are the
things that interest me you know I'm
interested in you know choose whatever
three things you want brain surgery and
horses and and tacos those are the three
things I'm really interested in but then
once you've got those things that you
are interested in then picture yourself
being an adult doing one of those three
things I'm really interested in horses
okay well maybe I could be a
veterinarian maybe I should be a farrier
maybe I should be a jockey maybe I could
be a race horse owner maybe I should
build race tracks me you know there's
there's a huge world of things that are
in the area that you are naturally
interested so the answer you a question
is find out do it do it for yourself
what is in your heart of the things that
are really important to you and then
visualize yourself as having succeeded
in that area and put that on the wall
way in the distances if everything goes
great then someday I'm going to be I
don't know the person that implants the
first artificial brain on earth that's
what I'm gonna do when I'm 50 I'm gonna
be the friggin alike a heart transplant
er whatever I'm going to do an
artificial brain transplant
and you probably won't but set that way
in the distance is your goal because the
beauty of that is it helps you what to
choose to do next which is really the
hard part
what what should I do this weekend what
should I do tonight and if you don't
know where you're trying to get to it's
really hard to decide what to do next
because what do you use is your
guideline but if you know that someday I
want to be the person that that owns the
horse that wins the Triple Crown in the
United States okay well then maybe I
should study horses or I should study
racing or I should study how did
Secretariat do so well er how come Man
O'War was such a dominant horse or or
how do horses hooves actually work or
doesn't matter by Sunday night you could
be slightly more experts in an area
that matters to you and you don't own a
horse or you haven't done brain surgery
yet but you you have turned yourself
into somebody slightly different you are
a different person by Sunday night and
even if you don't mean to do that you're
still going to be a slightly different
person if you if you spend the whole
evening week weekend eating chips and
watching reruns of Star Trek you're also
going to be a slightly different person
by Sunday night so to me the real key is
give yourself a long-term goal and then
deliberately change who you are by the
things that you choose to do and that's
what I started doing when I was 9 I just
thought someday I want to walk in the
moon so what should I do this weekend
and what book should I read and what
courses should I take and should I take
care of my body and what you know what
what should I do next and and don't
don't despair don't say it'll never
happen or gosh Australia doesn't have
rocket ships so therefore I shouldn't
even try all that does is determine that
you'd never have a chance
so start turning yourself into who
you're dreaming of being a little bit by
bit then even if you don't someday you
know implant an artificial brain into
somebody you will have moved your life
in a direction that suits you and you
could celebrate the successes every
single week you know you can this week I
didn't do brain surgery but this week I
learned how to use an electronic scalpel
or this weekend I learned how does the
medulla oblongata actually communicate
with the rest of my body you can you can
celebrate just becoming a more capable
human being and it's totally up to you
you are gonna turn yourself in who you
are going to become whether you mean to
or not
so I really recommend that you do it on
purpose because it's amazing where life
can lead
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