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What are common struggles when deciding your future path?
One of the top five worst experiences as a teenager is the feeling of your parents staring you down during dinner and asking you, so what do you want to do with your life? What kind of question is that mom? Really? What do I want to do with my life? What do you want to do with your life? Huh? How about that? You ever thought about that? Huh? My parents would troll me all the time.
They would always be like, oh, what do you want to do? You want to make a video? But I don't know. At one point I wanted to be a pilot, real talk. I wanted to fly planes. But after I learned that that was like a million dollars to get a license, not really, but it's expensive. I was like, okay, maybe I don't want to do that. Maybe that's not where my passion lies.
But if you're like between the ages of 16 to 21, how do you know what you want to do? How do you know? And it's crazy that we still have this kind of mentality of like, well, young people need to figure it out. They got to know right away. When in reality, like you spend your entire life figuring out things that you like and you don't. So that's cool in essence. All right, Zerk, nice yap.
What can I actually do with my life if I don't know what I want to do? Like if I feel lost, if I feel like I haven't picked up the pieces? Well, okay. I have some experience in this because I think that I intuitively have always been very reflective as to figuring out what I genuinely like to do and what I didn't like to do. And
oftentimes the things that I thought I liked were really the things that I thought other people liked to see me doing. The truth in all of this is kind of underwhelming. Are you ready to hear it? Okay. You have to let it find you. Oh, bro. What do you mean? This is so vague. This is terrible advice. What do you mean? Okay, I will try to explain it in the best way that I can.
Because it doesn't mean, like, letting your passions find you does not mean chilling on the couch and watching Squid Game. It's not what that means. It doesn't mean tapping into a niche Reddit rabbit hole that isn't going to improve your life by any means. I mean, you should do those things. Those are great leisure activities. You know, go watch the Anthony Bourdain documentary.
I'm watching that right now. It's so good. So good. Called Roadrunner. It's phenomenal. I recommend it. But how do you let something find you? Like, how do you let a passion, let a business idea kind of, you know, tickle your brain? The baseline is if you are between the ages of like 16 to 21. Honestly, any age still. This applies to anybody.
But in my opinion, I think this is so crucial for when you're really young. I think you really need to prioritize experience. And experience does not always mean paid experience. It means coming up with an idea yourself and executing that idea in a very, very rudimentary, really, really, sometimes poor way.
Because the more that you execute, the more you're going to find the things that you like about executing something, doing something, and the things that you don't like about that, about doing something. For example, for me, like an idea that I had was, oh, I wanted to make money selling shoes. So I tapped into sneaker reselling. I was hella into sneaker reselling. I loved that.
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