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"In each case, what we found is that they started down one path because they thought that was what they were supposed to do, and then at some point they realize

"In each case, what we found is that they started down one path because they thought that was what they were supposed to do, and then at some point they realized that they didn’t like that path at all,” Rose said. “During that period, they fell into something else and made a series of choices that led them to success.” This describes me exactly. I'm one of those people that never knew what they wanted to do and spent a lot of time just thinking about it and being worried about my future. After switching colleges once, majors 4 times, and seriously considering dropping out more than a couple of times, I finally landed on something that felt right enough I could force myself to get through when it was hard, without it feeling pointless. I found true motivation. My internal and external worlds aligned and I rocked it. Unfortunately I think that feeling only lasted through getting my current job and I'm now back to contemplating the pointlessness/morality of my work day in and day out. The ultimate goal of my work is to replace people in a call center, to automate their jobs so they don't have to be hired anymore. I don't think I'll feel right about it until we figure out basic guaranteed incomes and what people are supposed to do to live if they don't work and all the Player Piano(Vonnegut) kind of stuff nobody talks about when they're just thinking about making money. If you're working on something that you're passionate about, that is truly changing the world for the better, please let me know. I'd love to work on something and have no doubts about what I'm doing with my life again.

LionessLover 10y ago
Doubt is good! As an extreme example, remember how at the end of the war Nazis committed suicide, and it happened on all levels, not just the very prominent examples like Göbbels that everybody knows about? It wasn't because they were afraid of being judged (there were plenty of them who managed to escape justice), it often was because they were so convinced of their cause that when it failed they saw no future, nit just for themselves - they actually thought it was the end for the German people's future. So please keep your doubt. The more I learn - and I've taken courses like crazy over the last couple of years - the more I doubt. It#s just that now my doubt is more specific. So what you may want to do is replace "unspecific doubt" like the one exhibited in conspiracy theories by much more specific doubt. Donn't try to abandon doubt itself! Also, life inherently only has exactly the meaning you decide it has, so looking outside yourself is prone to failure. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4CvFWCULuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4CvFWCULuI :-) Seriously, as soon as you look for something on the outside to tell you what you should do you limit yourself and start on a path to failure - because now, instead of taking responsibility for your choices you will say "but I had no choice!".

LionessLover 10y ago

Doubt is good! As an extreme example, remember how at the end of the war Nazis committed suicide, and it happened on all levels, not just the very prominent examples like Göbbels that everybody knows about? It wasn't because they were afraid of being judged (there were plenty of them who managed to escape justice), it often was because they were so convinced of their cause that when it failed they saw no future, nit just for themselves - they actually thought it was the end for the German people's future. So please keep your doubt. The more I learn - and I've taken courses like crazy over the last couple of years - the more I doubt. It#s just that now my doubt is more specific. So what you may want to do is replace "unspecific doubt" like the one exhibited in conspiracy theories by much more specific doubt. Donn't try to abandon doubt itself! Also, life inherently only has exactly the meaning you decide it has, so looking outside yourself is prone to failure. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4CvFWCULuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4CvFWCULuI :-) Seriously, as soon as you look for something on the outside to tell you what you should do you limit yourself and start on a path to failure - because now, instead of taking responsibility for your choices you will say "but I had no choice!".