I remember the frantic first three months of my senior year of high school
I was applying to dozens of colleges mostly based on ratings writing so many
essays and packaging myself into the perfect student using all the so-called
right things I did the past three years in preparation for this very moment I
volunteered played sports had leadership positions took harder classes they've
all out on exams blah blah blah like many of my peers I jumped through all
the hoops with the goal of getting into a good college however for many of us
good didn't mean the college that would be good based on our goals in life the
return on investment or how college would fit into the bigger picture for
most of us Goodman high rankings had meant prestige
once we got into college little changed for most of us we learn to jump through
hoops jump through hoops very well to say the least but we never thought about
what we actually wanted so we continued on the same old paths during and after
college we became victims of triangular desire wanting something because you see
that other people want it and assume that it must be valuable we didn't
actually think about whether this is what we wanted why go against the grain
if you could get prestige and recognition from your friends parents
and counselors why do something that might lead to failure when you can go
into a safe major get a safe well-paying job and do something that you have been
doing for the past 16 years jumping through hoops there's a reason why so
many students go into consulting finance or similar fields the recruiting process
is very similar to getting into college they need to check certain boxes jump
through some hoops and they don't actually have to decide what they're
going to do with the gift and burden of freedom why decide when they can keep
the door open and do something like consulting for a little while because
once they make that decision once they close the door on all of the things that
they can do after they graduate they feel like they have to succeeded that
thing just like they've succeeded in everything they've done in life so far
because if they don't succeed they've made the wrong choice and the prospect
of not being successful terrifies them it disorients them it defeats them they
have been haunted their whole lives by a fear of failure often in the first
instance by their parents fear of failure the cost of falling short even
temporarily becomes not merely practical but existential so what is willing to
rest to which the author of the book excellent sheep recommend you do instead
of blindly following the same path as everyone else
he says the vocation is the thing you're called to do it isn't something you
choose it chooses you it's the thing you can't not do but the summons doesn't
happen by itself you have to do the work to make yourself receptive to it to find
yourself you must first free yourself you won't be able to recognize all the
things you really care about until you have released your grip on all the
things that you've been taught to care about you need to learn how to think to
drag your opinions into the light and try to defend or even acknowledge having
them so you can break them down and think critically about them do you have
an opinion on a certain topic because you understand both sides and you reason
rationally through the different possibilities or are you someone who can
produce an opinion about any subject as soon as someone brings it out you also
need courage moral courage the bravery to act on your imagination in the face
of what your family and friends are going to say to try to stop you because
they're not going to like it the morally courageous person tends to make the
individuals around him very uncomfortable he doesn't fly about their
ideas about the way the world is supposed to work and he makes them
insecure about the choices they themselves have made or failed to make
people don't mind being trapped as long as no one else is free but stage your
break and everyone else begins to panic also don't worry about trying to figure
out what you want to do with the rest of your life you're going to be a very
different person in two or three years and that person will have his own ideas
all you can really figure out is what you want to do right now so will you
figure out what you want and blaze your own path in this world or will you
follow the constant whispers of the crowd the choice is yours please
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