One of the most cliché pieces of advice is to focus on what you’re passionate about. I’ve taken this advice to heart for most of my life. Honestly, I was never forced to do anything I didn’t actually enjoy. I quit piano lessons because I didn’t like them. I enjoyed solving Rubik’s Cubes, so I grinded towards that. Programming was fun, so I wrote code. And this seems like such an ideal childhood, but it's a double-edged sword. There were inevitably times where I had to do things I didn’t enjoy, like study for a history test or memorize Spanish vocabulary. And in general, you’ll eventually have to do things that feel more like means to an end instead of intrinsically fulfilling. I associate things that you are forced to do, but don’t enjoy, with having an end goal. Let’s say you want to become a doctor—you have to take so many different science courses, and it’s extremely unlikely that you like all of them. But these are almost necessary evils, things you have to push through in ord...
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