From the course: How to Find the Work You Love

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Refuse to choose

Refuse to choose

Somewhere along the way, you might have been told that if you want to be successful, you have to specialize. If you ever had any business training, you might have heard the advice, choose a niche. Well, here's the thing. This advice might be helpful for some people sometimes, but it's also responsible for a lot of people feeling stuck and unfulfilled in their jobs. If you have a single minded mission and you know exactly what it is, that's what you should do. If you don't, adopt the Renaissance mindset and craft your life around all your passions and interests, or at least several of them. Interestingly, this approach may eventually lead you to that tightly focused area you wouldn't have found otherwise. And if it doesn't, well, at least you'll enjoy a life built around all your passions and interests. So let's consider the model of joy, money, and flow. How might you apply it here? You might apply it to a series of life experiments, small actions you can take to explore different…

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