A law-school friend assumed she'd hate corporate work without trying it. The speakers argue against overthinking and suggest testing ideas in the real world: talk to customers, try activities, ask what you like doing on Saturday instead of chasing passion.
I learned by doing.
I think experimental activity is the best way to figure out how you like something.
I had a friend that had never.
Worked when we were getting out of.
College and she had gone to law school and she was like, convinced, I think it wrote this in my book. She was convinced that she could not work at a corporate job because she wasn't like, she wasn't good at politics and she couldn't stay in the 9 to 5. And I'm like, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. You've never worked at one job. Never. You can't come up with all these decisions unless you try it once or twice. So what happens a lot of times is people sit in a room and they get these crazy ideas. And then as you said, when they're not bound to reality, they tend to get more extreme. Ground yourself by doing it. If you think you're going to start a business on blah, it's important to be strategic about it and stuff. But the most important and the most learning you can get is from actually doing that.
I think Steve Borecht once said, if.
You want to come up with your.
Business idea, don't sit in the conference room. Yeah, think about it. Go out, hit the street, talk to customers. I think this is the same way. Like question Rubin, the Happiness Project once had a good line about, if you want to figure out what you're passionate about, ask yourself what you like doing on Saturday afternoon. Don't ask yourself the question, what am I passionate about?
Right.
That's like this overwhelming question. So ask yourself a simple question, or if you want to understand what floats your boat, go try a bunch of shit and see what floats your boat. As opposed to getting all anxious and thinking in the abstract about, like, God.
What do I like more?
Do I like riding more? They're like, traveling. Do I like working in big companies, small companies we're trying to boat. We're going to work for a big company, working a small company. And as David Brussels said, spend your 20s wandering. Those are the odyssey years. And when you turn 30, figure out how you want to spend the next 40, 50 years.
