The Bliss Bean Show

003 | How Your Family Influences Your Career Choices w/ Taylor Kang

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What did you want to be when you were a little kid? In this episode, my first guest, Taylor Kang, and I talk about choosing between a career in the sciences and one in the arts, how our family and culture contributes to our beliefs surrounding work, and what we've learned about ourselves and the creative process in quarantine. We cover:

  • choosing between a scientific or a creative career (1:27)
  • cultural and family influences (2:40)
  • choosing a career with large scale impact (4:51)
  • the ridiculed communications major (7:44)
  • how to deal with external influences (9:09)
  • introversion vs. extraversion in quarantine (13:33)
  • why the grass always seems greener on the other side (18:06)
  • the danger of "motivational" social media messages (22:38)
  • why this uncertainty might be a good challenge for us "planners" (27:14)
  • the impact of 2020 on our hurried culture (27:14)
  • whether Taylor considered taking a gap year before college (31:13)
  • what quarantine taught us about creativity (32:59)

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