DISQUS

theY4Kman · 1 year ago

Then hot damn, I'm lucky to be a passionate, professional, and paid programmer. That's some good shit.

buchin · 1 year ago

Unfortunately, I can't enjoy my job yet.

S Green · 1 year ago

Finally afer years of competeing for the position, I did what I loved and was good at, trobleshooting electronics. But, bad circuit baords were deemed disposable so I studied computer science. Like a fool I went to a "party school" and I got put on probation as I graduated. Now I loved the programming puzzel but they made me stay around for two years. My livlyhood was terminated but my parents WERE rich so started to do art and I made a web site to program and display the art. My expression ran out and the economy rendured my funds gone. So I like the ideas here but what comes next. Ironically America finds itself introuble right along side me? So I share that with you. Feel free to visit www.slicksway.com. My contributions are art, liturature, and science, but I have many years to go. I love the ideas here.

mattress · 1 year ago

this is really great and is certainly is true. why do something you do not love to do?

hisnameisjimmy · 1 year ago

I've read Good to Great, and I just read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, which is also brilliant by the way, and they share some similar ideas about doing what your passionate about. Specifically, Gladwell mentions that some of the garment manufacturers in the early 20th century did back breaking work, but it was meaningful work. Otherwise it would have seemed like a prison sentence. There were clear relationships between input and reward, which make work satisfying.

I'm 24, and I'm currently trying to figure out what to do with myself. I have things I'm good at, and things I like doing, but I dunno about love, or passion. Like you with comedy, I'm currently thinking about directing films. In Outliers, Gladwell says it takes about 10 years or 10,000 hours of practice to become elite at what you want to do. You usually have to be passionate and lucky to be able to do anything you like for 10,000 hours if it doesn't pay very well or at all during the practice or incubation period. I'm hoping maybe I can have a side business to fund myself while I do the directing. Hopefully...

That Matt Kid · 1 year ago

never thought about it quite like this..im now pursuing good shit.

ManOverboard · 1 year ago

Ah, the overlapping bubble chart! Helping the visually inclined since 1863.

Zura · 1 year ago

Love this!!

ThinkingMan · 1 year ago

Read "Is Your Genius at Work?" by Dick Richards.

Sarah · 1 year ago

Even simpler: find people who are in those overlapping areas and get in touch with them.

Allison Clark · 1 year ago

The hardest shit is finding out what you love to do and that requires experiments, living life and asking yourself questions... something called living through your 20 somethings.

so... go out and play,

Joseph Smith · 1 year ago

Pick two

David Frayne · 1 year ago

There's another dimension to this that is usually overlooked. When people pay you (or your parents give you money) what do you spend it on?

The median income of people on the planet is $850/year. And contrary to popular belief, the median income earner is not poor. Everything above that amount is going towards unnecessary luxuries. Think about that.

Could you make $850/year as an artist? A comedian? Then do it! And cut out some unnecessary luxuries (like shoes).

Also, remember that when you spend the money you make, you are paying someone else's salary. What if that person is not doing what they love? Then they are your economic slave, in a sense.

Dirk · 1 year ago

I love this diagram!

I am currently in the process of finding my purpose, getting my dream job, finding what I love, depending on what label you want to put on the process. I have written a bit about my search, but this diagram sums it up so nicely. If you are interested at all you can read about my personal search on my site.

SRS · 1 year ago

Good visual concept to sink in to.

azam mansha · 1 year ago

You showing the diagram for calculating the Good Shit. I think that I am little agreed with you not so for. In diagram is little weakness.

MHartz · 1 year ago

You have a vision that you complete with a diagram. Nice work, and it seems to me a good tip to help focus.

Ken Laninga · 7 months ago

I agree 100%. I love searching in the bush for Diamond Willow (hiking) sticks; I call it "Pure Art by Mom Nature" because of its natural beauty. I enjoy working on my website to sell them, and make a little profit doing so. PLUS, I sell most of them "unfinished" so my worldwide customers finish them the way THEY like them, and sell them finished. Everybody wins and everybody is happy.