Update – Soul Searching Memoirs.

I know it’s been a long time and many great people have mentioned that I shouldn’t start with an apology. So I wont.

I’m working on a couple of things, one of them is finding out the goal or the direction to do what it is i want to be recognised as/with. It pains me to see that half competent nincompoops making their way to millions of dollars with half the talent that i possess. That’s not an arrogant statement or a boastful one. It is to say that there is a missing thing in me that these people have. While we are on the same field as far as “raw skill” goes and even more bestowed in some areas, the primary reason I am not doing what I am doing or you aren’t taking that next step is because you are afraid.

What if you give up that cushion of comfort and be pushed into the unknown? Can you handle the fear of losing everything? I used to think dictums like “when you have lost everything you have nothing to lose so go on etc”. But that’s not really my problem. My problem is I am unable to zero in on that particular thing or skill I want to do and want to achieve greatness is.

So how do you determine that?

What I have done is to list my passions in order to find some sort of confluence or congruence in the patterns while extending it to find a fit in an industry that can pay. All talk is cheap when you don’t get some monetary benefit. You don’t have to work ONLY for the benefit, but you do need some healthy sustenance once in a while.

I have been doing a lot of soul searching and for some reason I’m not able to target down a list of 2-3 items that I want to be the best at. So once that is done, I should hopefully write a lot more on that topic, but for now I’ll leave you with some great career advice from Scott Adams.

I recommend a general formula for success. Allow me to explain.

If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:

1. Become the best at one specific thing.
2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

The first strategy is difficult to the point of near impossibility. Few people will ever play in the NBA or make a platinum album. I don’t recommend anyone even try.

The second strategy is fairly easy.

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