one of the most common questions I
receive is improvement pill I don't know
what I wanted to do in life how can I
find my passion and that's a pretty
important question so in today's video
I'm gonna show you exactly how to do
just that
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before we get started I wanted to bunk
something a lot of us are under the
assumption that there's only one thing
out there that can be our passion that
it's predetermined by birth and that all
we have to do is find it but that's not
how it works the truth of the matter is
that there's probably many many things
that could potentially be your passion
in fact it's entirely possible to have
more than one passion if you take a look
at a lot of very successful people
you'll find that this is generally the
case for example Tim Ferriss is a
well-known author and speaker but did
you know that he was also a competitive
dancer wrestler and investor there's
only two things you need to do in order
for you to discover one of your passions
the first is that you must change where
you get your dopamine from dopamine is
the chemical that is released by our
brain that motivates us to do things
without it you will literally starve to
death even if there was food right in
front of you the release of dopamine is
also accompanied by pleasure the problem
nowadays is that dopamine is very easy
to get it's cheap and it's abundant
everywhere back in the day we had a do
stuff in order to get that dopamine and
most of the time that meant creating
something you had to build a house you
had a crate a nice piece of pottery you
had to go out and tend to your crops
while you worked on these tasks you were
flooded with dopamine and you felt good
about the whole process if you follow
this route you'd naturally become
passionate about whatever it is that you
did but nowadays it's a little bit
different we can now flood our brain
with dopamine without having to do much
at all you can surf the web you can
binge watch some TV shows you can order
amazing food to your front door almost
instantaneously and methods like this
have become the main sources of dopamine
for the majority of people now what's
different about these sources of
dopamine as compared to the ones we use
to get it from well these are forms of
consumption and the ones we used to use
our forms of creation and this is a very
important
distinction in order for something to be
your passion it must stem from creation
if you get the majority of your dopamine
from a form of consumption do you know
what we call that we call that an
addiction you're addicted to watching TV
you're addicted to smoking cigarettes
you're addicted to eating junk food but
on the other hand if we get the majority
of our dopamine from a form of creation
that's called the passion you're
passionate about drawing you're
passionate about dancing you're
passionate about farming so the first
and most important thing you have to do
in order to find your passion is to turn
back your consumption valve watch less
TV play less video games eat less junk
food when you turn back your consumption
valve you force yourself to start
looking for dopamine from forms of
creation this is crucial for our next
step the second thing you have to do in
order to find your passion is to simply
expose yourself to a variety of
different forms of creation to give
yourself a chance to get dopamine from
these sources instead of forms of
consumption now there's no fancy trick
to finding these things you just gotta
approach it the old-fashioned way by
trying things out so what I suggest you
to do after successfully completing step
number one is to search up a list of
hobbies literally go on google and type
in list of hobbies Wikipedia look
through the list and if you see anything
that seems even remotely interesting or
fun write it down
create a list then all you have to do is
take this list and ask yourself which
thing would I like to try out first you
should only try out one of these hobbies
at a time you must give yourself enough
time to see whether or not you can make
this hobby into a passion if you've
successfully followed our first step
which is to drastically tone down the
amount of dopamine you get from forms of
consumption what happens next
should be automatic let's say you picked
photography as something you might be
interested in if you followed our first
step correctly you'll naturally do some
research on photography you'll look up
some videos you'll start playing around
with a cheap camera or your phone and
after a while you'll know whether or not
you actually liked this hobby all of
this is fueled by the dopamine that you
are no longer getting from forms of
consumption because you are now getting
it from a form of creation and let's say
you don't find yourself interested in
photography all you have
do is move on to the second thing on
your list and if that doesn't work out
either try the third thing and so on and
so on and if you continue to find
yourself not interested in anything then
chances are you're not following the
first step properly you have to turn
down the amount of dopamine you get from
forms of consumption even more now I
know this sounds overly simplistic but
finding a passion isn't as hard as
people make it seem honestly all you
have to do is tone down the amount of
dopamine you're getting from sources of
consumption and allow yourself to
explore different forms of creation
speaking of which a great place for you
to dip your feet into the water for a
variety of different hobbies is
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personally I've been interested in
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my goal is to eventually create better
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these video editing classes are teaching
me what I need in order to reach that
goal for those of you that are looking
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besides that guys stay tuned