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Nice Article!
However, I see from comments that many readers are young about to choose a career or even a major, and would like to point out: be flexible. What you love to do often change.
From my cursory reading, skill+interest+value -> what you love to do (and should do to make a living).
Skills are just a proportion to experience. For young people, don’t bother too much about your current skills and do place more emphasis on your interest. The efficiency of building skill set or experience is proportional to your interest. With strong interest and time and baseline energy, you will have that skill by time you call it a career.
Interest does not need to be specific. Actually our interest is largely determined by the education we received and the people we live, socialize, and work with. If you doing something and can get sufficient appreciation with relative ease, you are bound to have interest in that particular thing. So it is not that much single cut word to write it down. Say you play football pretty well, and are very interested in it, will you still be interested in it once you are competing in a national league and spend 5 years without achieving your goals? (that also depends on what your dream is). I like science, physics to be specific. But when it comes to academic and stuck to costant writing proposals and doing research based on trend, I am not so sure about my interest any more. So be flexible.
Finding what you love for life is not an easy task and we should not expect any easy solution out of it. Life is complex. Choose your future is difficult. But enjoy whatever life throws at you and be happy is not that difficult.
But I find the formula given in the article most useful when you hate what you are doing right now and thinking about a change. Use this formula to find a choice that is better than what your current job, and go for it. The usefulness of this formula comes in convincing yourself about the rightness of your choice and having a peace of mind.
My 2 grain of salt.
However, I see from comments that many readers are young about to choose a career or even a major, and would like to point out: be flexible. What you love to do often change.
From my cursory reading, skill+interest+value -> what you love to do (and should do to make a living).
Skills are just a proportion to experience. For young people, don’t bother too much about your current skills and do place more emphasis on your interest. The efficiency of building skill set or experience is proportional to your interest. With strong interest and time and baseline energy, you will have that skill by time you call it a career.
Interest does not need to be specific. Actually our interest is largely determined by the education we received and the people we live, socialize, and work with. If you doing something and can get sufficient appreciation with relative ease, you are bound to have interest in that particular thing. So it is not that much single cut word to write it down. Say you play football pretty well, and are very interested in it, will you still be interested in it once you are competing in a national league and spend 5 years without achieving your goals? (that also depends on what your dream is). I like science, physics to be specific. But when it comes to academic and stuck to costant writing proposals and doing research based on trend, I am not so sure about my interest any more. So be flexible.
Finding what you love for life is not an easy task and we should not expect any easy solution out of it. Life is complex. Choose your future is difficult. But enjoy whatever life throws at you and be happy is not that difficult.
But I find the formula given in the article most useful when you hate what you are doing right now and thinking about a change. Use this formula to find a choice that is better than what your current job, and go for it. The usefulness of this formula comes in convincing yourself about the rightness of your choice and having a peace of mind.
My 2 grain of salt.
posted by Hui Zhou at 2:58 PM
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