Maya Comerota on How to Take Charge of Your Life #shorts

Name: Maya Comerota on How to Take Charge of Your Life #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-09-02T12:30:05+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this brief interview, Maya Comerota addresses people who feel pressured by societal or parental expectations to pursue conventional careers. She…

2 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief interview, Maya Comerota addresses people who feel pressured by societal or parental expectations to pursue conventional careers. She advises them to first listen to the inner voice of doubt and curiosity, asking themselves what truly lights them up, excites them, or makes them feel strong emotional reactions—both positive (passion, joy) and negative (sadness, anger, aversion). She emphasizes pausing to notice how these thoughts feel in the body, using those somatic signals as a compass to steer away from paths that would cause misery and toward work that aligns with authentic interests and values.

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For some people who are thinking, society's always told me I should do this, and my parents always said I should become the lawyer, the doctor, whatever it is. But if there's that doubt inside of them, where should they start?
You start by listening to that part of you that says this either is it or it's not it. The question I ask all the time is, what would you love? What lights you up? What makes you excited? What makes you passionate? What makes you sad? What makes you angry? What are the things that you're like, I would poke my eyes out if I have to sit in this thing? Please don't do that thing. Please don't. If you just even take a pause and feel what you do this feels like in your body.