Marie Forleo tells Vishen Lakhiani that you should quit your job if it doesn't fulfill you and keep searching for work you love. She pushes back on his worry about market saturation: your unique perspective is irreplaceable, and the world needs what only you can give.
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You have all this potential inside and you can't seem to get it out. Everything you're trying is just not working again and again and again. And you start to feel like you're broken or like, you know, other people are kind of charging ahead and creating success and you're kind of left behind. You're going to spend the next 40, 50 years of your life, at least, at least that, working. You have to find something you love. And if this job is knit, then quit. Figure out how to keep a roof over your head, but find something you love. And don't stop looking until you find it.
Doesn't it seem like everything's been done before? Like, I mean, there are people out here who might want to start a podcast, bajillion podcasts, maybe people out here who want to build a coaching company. There's a bajillion coaching companies. Same with a bajillion online courses. What do we do when it seems that it's so competitive with almost 8.
Billion people on the planet? Can you imagine, for example, if back in the day that Oprah Winfrey had seen how Phil Donahue had dominated the market and said, you know what? There's already too many talks. Does the world really need another talk show host? So for anyone who ever thinks that it's all been done before, I always say this. You are a one time mega event in the universe. There is no one on this planet that ever has been or ever will have your unique perspective, your gifts, your stories, your sensibilities. And if you don't do everything possible to share those gifts while you're here in this incarnation on planet Earth, the world is missing out on something it will never have. You.
