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Computerized Advice; Follow Your Passion?
Another TV show where the experts do more harm than good for a 20-something who doesn't know what he is passionate about.
In this episode, I talk about:
* Computers and Experts are wrong
* Sane advice if you don't know your passion
* What it feels like when you do
Transcript:
Hello everyone. Welcome to The Path to 1 million. This is episode 213. So yeah, there's a lot of ice this last weekend. A lot of snow, the the back roads of where we live, we're ridiculously treacherous. And if you add to that, the fact that my coughing and my sickness actually got a lot worse. And then on top of that I was trying to take care of Sherry making her the priority for over the weekend. So I apologize for not getting any episodes out over the last four or five days, but I want to get back on track this week from doing it cause I really do love these things. Anyways. the reason why I'm sharing the story that I want to share with you guys today is I was watching on the TV last week and I can't remember which shell, but it was just another one of these shows where there was like a young person that was on there and he was trying to figure out what, you know, what he wanted to do with his life or you know, what he wanted to, you know, get his degree in or maybe a business, you should start something along those lines.
And of course all these experts on there were asking him what he was passionate about and he kept saying, I don't know. I don't know. And they're at that point in time when he said, I don't know, like any advice that they had for him completely fell apart. Cause then all of a sudden they were saying, well, if you knew what you were passionate about, then you could do this. Or they knew could do this. And they were trying to ask him questions to reveal like stuff that he was passionate about. And the thing is, he didn't know what he was passionate about enough anyways to like say, you know what, I'm passionate about frogs, so maybe I should get a degree in biology. You know? And he didn't know if he wanted to make that six year commitment or six year or eight year commitment, 10 year commitment to get his veterinary license if he wanted to go that far.
And they kept pushing him. But all their advice was predicated on one simple concept. And that was, you have to know what you're passionate about. And it got me thinking of when I was back in high school, and I want to say this was in ninth grade, we took this thing that was called a MOIS test, a MOIS I believe it was what it was called, Michigan Occupational (Information System). Anyways, a computer that was supposed to be infinitely smarter than us would ask a series of questions. We would fill out those little bubbles on a sheet and we would turn it into the computer and the computer would come back and tell us, you know, these are professions, these are jobs that you would be good for. And so I remember when I filled mine out and it came back and I think it came back with like three professions came back with pilot, which I thought was really cool.
Came back with aerospace engineer, which is kind of sort of what I was looking for and mortician which I didn't expect that, I didn't think I looked like lurch or anything else like that. So I couldn't understand why I would think that I had an interest in burying dead people, but I had no interest in, in following that business or that line of work. So that one kinda fell on the ground, but I know there was some kids in the class that they must had like 25 or 30 different careers to choose from. I had those three. That's what I remember.
And I know that really at the end of the day, as much as I, I enjoy doing engineering as much as I enjoyed working at the different companies that I worked at and making the impact on the people that I did. You know, I would have to say that I don't really have an...
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By Cliff DuvernoisAnother TV show where the experts do more harm than good for a 20-something who doesn't know what he is passionate about.
In this episode, I talk about:
* Computers and Experts are wrong
* Sane advice if you don't know your passion
* What it feels like when you do
Transcript:
Hello everyone. Welcome to The Path to 1 million. This is episode 213. So yeah, there's a lot of ice this last weekend. A lot of snow, the the back roads of where we live, we're ridiculously treacherous. And if you add to that, the fact that my coughing and my sickness actually got a lot worse. And then on top of that I was trying to take care of Sherry making her the priority for over the weekend. So I apologize for not getting any episodes out over the last four or five days, but I want to get back on track this week from doing it cause I really do love these things. Anyways. the reason why I'm sharing the story that I want to share with you guys today is I was watching on the TV last week and I can't remember which shell, but it was just another one of these shows where there was like a young person that was on there and he was trying to figure out what, you know, what he wanted to do with his life or you know, what he wanted to, you know, get his degree in or maybe a business, you should start something along those lines.
And of course all these experts on there were asking him what he was passionate about and he kept saying, I don't know. I don't know. And they're at that point in time when he said, I don't know, like any advice that they had for him completely fell apart. Cause then all of a sudden they were saying, well, if you knew what you were passionate about, then you could do this. Or they knew could do this. And they were trying to ask him questions to reveal like stuff that he was passionate about. And the thing is, he didn't know what he was passionate about enough anyways to like say, you know what, I'm passionate about frogs, so maybe I should get a degree in biology. You know? And he didn't know if he wanted to make that six year commitment or six year or eight year commitment, 10 year commitment to get his veterinary license if he wanted to go that far.
And they kept pushing him. But all their advice was predicated on one simple concept. And that was, you have to know what you're passionate about. And it got me thinking of when I was back in high school, and I want to say this was in ninth grade, we took this thing that was called a MOIS test, a MOIS I believe it was what it was called, Michigan Occupational (Information System). Anyways, a computer that was supposed to be infinitely smarter than us would ask a series of questions. We would fill out those little bubbles on a sheet and we would turn it into the computer and the computer would come back and tell us, you know, these are professions, these are jobs that you would be good for. And so I remember when I filled mine out and it came back and I think it came back with like three professions came back with pilot, which I thought was really cool.
Came back with aerospace engineer, which is kind of sort of what I was looking for and mortician which I didn't expect that, I didn't think I looked like lurch or anything else like that. So I couldn't understand why I would think that I had an interest in burying dead people, but I had no interest in, in following that business or that line of work. So that one kinda fell on the ground, but I know there was some kids in the class that they must had like 25 or 30 different careers to choose from. I had those three. That's what I remember.
And I know that really at the end of the day, as much as I, I enjoy doing engineering as much as I enjoyed working at the different companies that I worked at and making the impact on the people that I did. You know, I would have to say that I don't really have an...