In this video Evan Carmichael answers a viewer’s question about how to discover a life‑purpose and turn countless passions into a coherent career. He argues that talent follows passion, so the focus should be on identifying what you love and quickly acquiring the related skills. Rather than trying to force a single, static focus, he encourages embracing the natural “entrepreneur ADD” of jumping between interests, but doing so under a unifying core purpose. He suggests mapping all passions under an umbrella mission, then productizing the learning process for each interest (e.g., creating a fast‑track salsa‑dancing course) to generate income and impact. When enthusiasm wanes, he advises either delegating the project to someone else if it’s profitable or killing it if it isn’t, to avoid wasting time on work that doesn’t serve the larger vision. Throughout, he promotes his Movement program and newsletter as resources for people who want to apply this mindset to change the world.
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How to find your path. I got an awesome, heartfelt, passionate message from one of my YouTube viewers. Love you guys, Ripe Foods, and I had to answer this question. I'm going to read it out for you guys. Thank you for your hard work, Evan. How do I recognize my talents? I understand my passions, but I'm not quite sure of my talents. I tried so many things. Seriously, I've tried a lot in my life but never have developed an expertise in something because I often ask myself, is this what I'm supposed to be doing? Is it because I don't want to be labeled as one thing? Everything I've tried, I've gotten recognition and small jobs in the field, but once that happens, I want to show that I can do other things than just that. So I go from job to job, interest to interest, all the time. I move from home to home. Either way, the more time goes on, the fuller the picture gets, but I'm just into my 30s now and I want to become something and make a huge impact on the world in a positive, fulfilling way. I want to feel like I'm accomplishing. I've tried making passion lists, do's and don't lists, etc., but it's still not enough. Anything I've Ever wanted to do, I figured out myself and self-taught myself. I have a lot of great, amazing ideas, way, way, way, way too many, but I don't have the passion to execute them when I know they would be too easy to do. I guess I just have a hard time focusing, time management. Ah, maybe I'll never figure it out. Right, Food? This is a fantastic, amazing question. Thank you so much for asking it, and let me try to add some clarity for you. Number 1, it's not about your talents, okay? It's not about discovering your talents, because when you are passionate about something, as you've discovered, You'll pick up the talent quickly. You could pick it up faster than somebody who's been in it for years because you love doing it, right? When you feel that passion for something, you'll pick up the talent quickly. So it's not about discovering your talents, it's much more about your passion and then picking up the talents that go along with it. For you, it's not going to be about time management, okay? It's not about focusing yet. I love the passion that you're putting out. I love your desire to change the world. It's refreshing, it's awesome, it breathes life into the channel. Maybe you should be a student in the movement program. The most important thing that you need to figure out is how to combine your passions, because right now you're jumping from one thing to another thing to another thing to another thing, and you don't know how it all makes sense. What you need to do is figure out how that jumping, right, because you're probably not going to change, right? And this is the challenge you're going through. You're trying to say, how do I become the person who focuses on one thing? You're not that guy, so stop trying to be that guy and find out how you can become successful, make a lot of money, change the world by jumping and jumping and jumping and jumping and jumping because that's what you're really good at and that's what you're successful at. So how can you leverage that, combine your passions to build something amazing? Okay, so instead of this being they're not connected and you're, you seem all over the place, put that under an umbrella. So what is your core purpose? How do you want to change the world? And then how can all this jumping around facilitate that. That's the big picture exercise that you need to go through. So here's an example. Say, you know, it's funny, you talk about your passion, but you didn't say what your passion was. Say your passion is learning, okay? You love learning, right? And you love learning something new. You love the challenge of somebody telling you you can't do this, and you want to go out and prove them wrong and do it. And then once you stop learning, it goes away. You're not interested anymore, right? You got, you got like 80% there. You don't want to put in that last 20%. Because it's too much work and the learning has stopped, right? If that's what you want to do, how can you use that to create products and services that better the world? So for example, say one of your goals was I want to learn salsa dancing, okay? I want to become a great salsa dancer and I want to do it in a month because you love your short timelines and getting through and getting it done quick and fast, and I love it. I love the ambition, I love the drive. So what's your plan? How do you go and do it? Do you watch YouTube videos? Do you go to salsa clubs? Do you go learn from some of the world's greatest salsa instructors? What's your process, right? And document that. And you can create a product around that, right? If it's an online video series, if it's an e-guide, if it's worksheets with video components attached to it, whatever it is, you can productize that process of learning and call it "How to Be a Great Salsa Dancer in a Month" or whatever it is, right? And then by the time that month passed up, you've gotten to be that proficient level that you're after, and then you get bored of salsa dancing and like, ah, I wanna move on to something else. And that's great. You create your product, you launch it, and you move on to something else. You create this little mini empire of all these little courses that support your greater vision of making the world a better place through learning or through education, right? I face the same thing in my business, and I think a lot of entrepreneurs have, you know, it's entrepreneur ADD. We like the new, We're addicted to the new. And let me say congratulations for having the courage to embrace the uncertainty and to not get locked in, because so many people, that's what they do, right? They get locked in. They feel like, I'm 30, I'm almost 30, I gotta get a job, I gotta settle down, I gotta have stability. And then you get locked into something that you love less, less, less, less, less, and you're living for the weekends and the evenings, and you hate your life. And this is A lot of people in the world. So congratulations for— even though you don't know what you're going to do next, you know that by sticking in this one thing that you're not feeling, you're not loving, you're slowly going to rot. And so you're moving on to something and following your passion. It will work out, I promise you. How I do it in my business— most of the time that I spend is working on these new projects. I love coming up with ideas, I love starting them up. And then the maintaining it and the like the slow growth after is not my game. It's boring, it kills me. And so the minute I start losing interest in one of the things I'm working on, right? When you're excited about something, you're passionate, you're pouring everything into it. When my interest starts to fade, I had to find a way to either get rid of it or to give it to somebody else. And if I built it up to the point where it's making enough money to justify by hiring somebody to come on board and do it, I'll do that. If I haven't gotten it up, I haven't gotten it off the ground enough, it's not making any money, then I'll just kill the project. Because me spending time doing things that I don't like is not going to yield changing the world kind of results. So the biggest challenge for you, and hopefully this video has helped, is restructuring your thinking so that you don't see yourself as just jumping from one thing to another thing, another thing, and it's not part of a bigger picture. Bring all of those things together, combine your passions, embrace the genius of the and, and make it part of this bigger vision that then you can turn into a product or service to help change the world. And your focus isn't going to be on one thing only, it's going to continue to be jumping from place to place to place because that's what you are best at. Whew! Belief. For those of you watching, if you like the video, you can subscribe Subscribe to the channel. If you also want to change the world and you're serious about it, check out the Movement program. It might be a really great fit for you. See you soon. Thank you for watching. Believe. If you want the real goods, I share my best advice for entrepreneurs every week in my newsletter. Click the link below to check it out. It's free. Hi, I'm Jason J. Ros Fonseca of RiseOnline.com, and I want to say Evan Carmichael's newsletter is consistent fun, inspiring, and it's the only newsletter I prioritize and look forward to. Period.
