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When the passion fades, I change my job and do something else. Then the passion is back. I guess its because my passion comes from learning new things in techno
by ScottWhigham 13y ago
When the passion fades, I change my job and do something else. Then the passion is back. I guess its because my passion comes from learning new things in technology.
I don't know how old you are but I'll assume/pretend you are in the age range he talks about (22-23 apparently). I'm 42 now so I have ~20 years on you. The things you say, the way you think, and the ideas you have at 22-23 are so different from those you'll have as a 25yo, 30y, 35yo, and 40yo. Life events will change your perspectives 10-20 times in the next 20 years, causing you to change passions once or twice (or lessen/augment your current passions). It is, quite simply, arrogance to think that, at 22-23, you know yourself. You don't. You won't know yourself for 15-20 years, I bet. I'm sure when I'm 50 that I'll think 42yo me was an arrogant fool for thinking I was qualified to give advice to a 22-23yo haha.
All in all, your comments come across as abrasive and "cock sure". Relax. You don't know what you don't know yet. How you approach this "problem" today is not how you will approach it years from now.
Example: let's say at 26yo you develop a product that becomes fairly popular quickly - enough to make you $150,000 in six months. And you did it by yourself with no help. What's next? Will you raise money and try to make $150,000,000 with it? Or will you try to keep it yourself and maybe have a lifestyle business? Whatever you say today is not what you will say in 3-4 years - you will have learned so much by then that there's no point in even speculating what you think to do then.
I'm rambling now so I'm done. Final point is "You aren't as smart as you think you are so back off the rhetoric."
- toomuchtodo 13y agoI'm 30. I know so much more than when I was 23. There is so much more I don't know still though, and I recognize that now (not so much at 23). Passion comes from fulfillment. Find what fulfills you.