Excerpt of a T. Harv Eker YouTube talk advising listeners to actively ‘try on’ careers or projects by doing them—marketing, talking to people, and experiencing the activity full‑on—to judge whether they truly enjoy it. He illustrates with his shift to fitness, which he pursued publicly, enjoyed, and which contributed to his financial success.
Get in the game, start being it, start doing it, start putting marketing material together, start talking to people about it, etc. Etc. And see how you feel when you're doing that. I did that. And at some point in time, something I thought was a great idea, the more I talked to people about it and you know, I kept the name secret and things like that, but the more I felt I'm going, you know what? If I had to spend my entire life talking about this, I don't think I'd be very happy. And I actually let that go. And then I started just naturally talking to people about things that I love. And my first thing was fitness. At the time I started talking about people, fitness and this, and sure enough, I said, you know what, that might be a really good. I love talking about it, so let's do that. And you know, I became a millionaire. So that's what I would say is, you know, you really want to be trying it on, talking to people, getting involved, doing the research and all that and see how that all resonates you while you're doing it. Not thinking about it, just in it, doing it as if you're going to do it full on and then just check your feelings out.
