Mark Cuban tells 21-to-23-year-olds to stop worrying about having a perfect career plan. Take jobs that teach you how to learn, build confidence by solving problems, and the work you love will follow.
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You're 21, 22, 23 years old, right? You don't have to figure it out right now. I understand there's pressure from student loans and there's a lot of conversations we can have there, right? But, you know, you can get a job that doesn't have to be perfect. You can learn at that job and you guys have the pedigree, you have the brains, you have the initiative to go out and try the next job. Don't look for the perfect answer, just look to get the experience, look to learn, because all these different exposures, all the different things you learn, learning how to learn, that's what's going to give you, get you excited and juicy for for something that you love. Because when you're, when you're able to find something you love to do, then you can start focusing on how can I be great at this? And it's rare when people quit things they're great at.
I like the learning how to learn part. See so many people out in business and sales and they don't want to go through that process of, of learning something new. To not understand something, do it, figure it out, have success with it. When you continue to repeat that cycle, it gives yourself a lot of confidence that in future things you'll be able to accomplish really whatever you want.