Hey, Dan here and in this video I'm answering a question sent in from
Camilla from Ecuador. Now, it was quite a long question, but the gist of it is
Camilla's 16 and she's wondering what to do with her life and, for whatever crazy
reason, the school system is making her choose what she wants to do at 16 so
somehow you expect someone who, you know, no offense to anyone who's 16 but you
don't really know what you want to do in life most of the time and yet you have
to make that choice and Camilla is wondering should she study psychology
because she is an INFP she's kind of creative interested in people I suppose
and this is what her friends are telling her but she is worried about whether she
can get a job earn money all that sort of thing so should you study psychology
that's what I'm boiling it down to here and the answer is well it depends what
you want to do but psychology is one of the best majors there is okay I'm not
just saying that because I majored in psychology and I'll be honest when I
majored in psychology part of why I did was it seemed like it would be fairly
easy there were more girls than guys in the classes and was kind of interesting
right turned out as you might imagine knowing my channel I loved psychology
and it's become like the center of my life psychology can have huge value in
terms of making money two of the richest men in the world and the best investors
Charlie Munger warns Warren Buffett's business partner and Ray Dalio who is a
like awesome dude I'm just reading his book right now both talk about
psychology more than just about anything else in terms of how they invest I'm
gonna do some other videos on these topics but many many rich investors have
been quoted saying that they wish they had have studied psychology or that
psychology is far more important than economics in terms of figuring out the
market and making money so psychology is people right it's a study of humans and
let's think where could it be valuable to know about humans I mean or do humans
really get involved in anything like business no there's no humans involved a
business hi computers no no humans really involving computers mark
zuckerberg he just majored in psychology minored in computer science and it's not
important I'm sure psychology has nothing to do with the success of
Facebook or anything it's not totally based on you know human nature and
manipulating people and all that totally not yeah you get my point
psychology is the basis of just about everything we do and if you're wired
towards more of the liberal arts side you know psychology English history all
this sort of thing you're not kind of wanting to be an engineer or a doctor or
something then psychology is pretty awesome
it is super interesting it has a huge importance in terms of how we live our
lives in terms of any basically any role you get into if you want to get into you
know business marketing obviously counseling or you know working directly
with people has it's a good degree as well so yes I would say psychology is a
good degree and I want to you know deepen this discussion a little bit or
maybe broaden to actually the right word in terms of when you're choosing what
you want to study should you be basing it on how you're
going to make money I almost majored well not that almost
but there was a chance of me majoring in like accounting because it paid well
like yeah kill me now I mean think of what you'd be watching
right now I'd you know well I probably won't have a YouTube channel at all
right the reason is is I did the stupid thing that so many people do is I looked
at jobs you know what they pay you know opportunities for hiring after college
and all this sort of stuff and something like accounting or programming jumps out
it's cool if you like that but if you don't like it there here's the thing
first if you become it like an accountant or
follow the money but you don't enjoy it by time you're 30 you're gonna be one of
my clients and you recall me being like I hate my life I need to quit my job and
like figure out my purpose so now you've just wasted ten years being an
accountant and you're starting fresh at being an
artist or you know a freelancer or an entrepreneur or something like that
you're not going to have a fulfilling 40 year accounting career if you hate it
okay the other thing is in any profession in anything in the world you
can make a lot of money if you're good one rule I live by is that 90% of people
are bad at what they do for a living that's what they choose to do for a
living maybe I'm a pessimist but this has been my experience very few people
are actually any good at what they do that's bad news if you need to hire
people or you know deal with people like doctors or lawyers or accountants this
rule applies to all of them I can't tell you how many accountants I've met with
or lawyers where I somehow know more than them about a lot of things the
point is is that if you become good at something it's not that hard to become
one of the best because most people don't and you'll end up making a lot of
money if you're a good writer a good designer a good you know artist of any
sense a good any number of things you can make a lot of money and so you don't
have to worry about the financial side don't look at average is like the
average person in this profession earns as much unless you're planning on having
an average life if you're planning on having an average life look up the
average divorce rate look up the average obesity rate look up the average incomes
and you'll get very depressed and then you'll have a very average life instead
realize that if you want to be an outsider and become one of the best at
what you do you know work to become a better person
bla bla bla bla bla then you're going to do just fine financially so why not pick
an area where you're gonna be happy in and that's going to give you that extra
you know juice to actually succeed you know another thing with this is I know
this is like the rant of a madman video here I apologize but the other thing is
if you do something you enjoy your odds of succeeding are much higher right so a
lot of people look at safe stable jobs and they say okay this job's really easy
it's like a good guaranteed income so I'll do that and I'm more
likely to succeed than if I do like this thing over here that I really want to do
an impassionate about but remember psychology is everything human beings
right if you're not motivated for this thing over here and you're like bitter
and you don't like the job then do you really think you're gonna succeed in it
you're probably gonna self-sabotage you're probably gonna put in minimal
effort and all that we're this thing over here that you really like you're
gonna stay up extra late like learning about it becoming better you're going to
be always improving yourself putting in extra hours so you're much more likely
to make more money and be more successful doing the thing you actually
enjoy than if you just you know follow where you think will make money or be
stable or whatever else so if you follow this advice and you do end up being
homeless don't blame me I do apologize but more than likely you'll look back
ten years from now and just be very happy that you've chosen to follow you
know I want to say follow your heart but just follow your personality follow who
you are and do that rather than trying to conform and live an average life
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