How to Find out What You’re Passionate In
The necessity to follow your passions is a prevalent subject in most goal-setting literature. Do the activities that motivate you to get up early. All that’s missing is one thing: What if you haven’t developed any interests? Everyone in this world, I’m sure, has a passion for something. That, however, is not the same thing. It’s not the same as investing tens of thousands of hours creating your own video game. Your passion must be something for which you would put in a lot of effort.
So, what do you do if you’re not very interested in anything?
Many career advice is assessing your current abilities and personality traits before selecting what you’d be better adapted for. This method does not appeal to me because people are complex. And any assessment will be a massive simplification of what matters to you and what you enjoy doing in the end. I once read about a wealthy woman on the lookout for a husband. She spent almost $20,000 on a series of psychological questionnaires to connect her with suitable prospects. She met with each of the dozen prospects who were the best fit for her. She concluded she didn’t like any of them after all that money and work.
She was engaged six months later to someone she had met at a party. The moral of the story is that people don’t know what they want until they see it (and surveys don’t help much). To be honest, I don’t believe any questionnaire can predict what you’ll be genuinely passionate about. I’d instead try hundreds of entirely different hobbies than limit my options because a test stated I wouldn’t enjoy them.
How to Discover Your Passion?
Finding your passions is actually quite straightforward if you take the following approach: Experiment with a variety of options. Check out what you like.
The most challenging barrier to overcome is a narrow view of your capabilities. I’d try to place a wide net to look at dozens of various things if I wasn’t passionate about anything. I’m tired because I’m sticking to what I know; therefore now is the time to branch out. Getting involved is essential to discovering what motivates you. Experimenting entails committing to anything for a period of three to six months. This amount of time is insufficient to become truly proficient at anything. However, it is sufficient time to overcome the steep learning curve from the outset.
For the first few months that I worked on it, I didn’t enjoy programming. It was too frustrating to continue because I didn’t know enough. But, once I got through the motivation, I discovered that programming is a fun activity for me. You should start experimenting if you don’t have a goal that motivates you to get up early and sacrifice free time. Find new things that are absolutely outside of your comfort zone and that you can commit to for at least two months.
You need a Spark sometimes………
Sometimes the passion problem is not the activity, and it’s the objective. I liked to work on little self-constructed items. But it wasn’t until I found out that people were truly self-running businesses, which I really did get involved with. My intention was only to explore something fun until that time. After this point, I recognized that I hadn’t previously considered the place for a difficult goal. The experience is just as crucial for experimenting in activities. Meet folks from strange and interesting contexts. Read books not usually on your shelf. It improves the possibility of something more from one of your passions. Randomness increases.
Always seek for more……
Experimenting is a never-ending process. It’s a good idea to dedicate oneself to a single aim. However, there should still be time for a few quick experiments. If you’re always experimenting, you’ll have a broad pool of interests from which to create intriguing work. Leisure will not be tolerated.
