Wow, your journey in finding your passion almost sounds exactly like mine. From the jobs you were considering, to the D’s in school, and how you found typology. (Except I got fired from a lot of the jobs. 🤣) I guess all of us can relate to a time period where we feel like we’re just floating through life, trying to find out who we are. Thank you for sharing! 😊
Also, dont limit yourself to just 1 "passion". If you are high in Openness to Experience, you are likely to have many interests. My "passion" is the intersection of multiple disciplines and how they work together.
I don't know why I didn't see this video before. The stage I'm at in life is exactly what you described in the beginning of this video, and it's not often I relate to someone else's experience this much. I'm still struggling, but you breathed a bit of life into me. I'm going to try exploration despite my anxiety and self-doubt. Thank you.
I like your videos. They're informative and very entertaining. You focus on the big picture while mentioning important details. You talk about abstract concepts while making sure that it's practical. That's precisely my style of learning :)
Again a perfect video ! We learn from each other. Passion for me is the thing that give us energy, make us feel happy and alive, our reason to live, the thing that we are made for, the thing we like to do, the thing which is us, our self, the reflection of our self. If this passion = our job, it's perfect. (Example of Elon Musk : surely his passion=his job, that's why he can spend many hours to "work") If we are not happy in a job, or don't like it, that means this job is not for us, not our passion, not correspond to us, and we might lost our self, feel empty and depressed. (routine, be a robot, as people say : "automatic mode, it's like that, can't do nothing about it" and see them suffer inside) We should not live for the week-end, but everyday. That's why I think It's super important to know our cognitives functions. I did : High school Science, and had Athletic trainer diploma > programming informatique 6 month (not for me) > Master in Art (neither, there is something but I don't want to be artist, only 1% people live of it, I have others skills, can be good too for many others things) > Reception agent (help people, good advice, patient, calm) > Seller (calm, advice, organize) > Administrative assistant (I love analyze, good to notice the inconsistencies, help people, solve problems, have solutions) The experiences I did, learnt me what I like/don't like, what I am good/bad at, what correspond or not to me, acquire new skills. We learn about ourselves through our experiences. And by communicate with other, by comparing, we see our differences and similarities, the dots which connect or not. I didn't find my job, but I think I found new passions, and found passions I had before : MBTI, psychology, philosophy, astronomy, analyze, create. It's good to finally be able to put words on what I like, skills and values.
Much needed video! I went through a depressive state several years ago when the realization of adulthood first sank in that the world isn't what you need it to be, so I wound up spending a couple or more years just basically learning about & practicing the care of my body and the health of my animals because I didn't have much else to care about, but there comes a time to move beyond that and make a difference in the world that isn't what you need it to be - however small that difference is. One of the biggest lessons I ever learned: don't work for money; (I mean yes work for money but) make your money work for you and the things you really care about -- it's the only thing that time can guarantee us
I think it's funny how much I look like you. Since identifying myself as INTJ 5w4, up to 17 years old I want to build a career in cyber security. I am currently 19 years old, I got depressed because I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, what my purpose was, I stopped studying cybersecurity and since then I've been pursuing my passion. I did an experience of disconnecting myself from all pleasures, the famous "Dopamine Detox", for 3 days, during which time I was reflecting on what I would really like to do in life without all that distraction. I came to the conclusion: Psychological/neuroscience But I'm still not sure, I need to try.😅 But psychology is a subject that I spend hours without getting tired of consuming knowledge. I have an INTJ-1 uncle, I talked about the MBTI and how it worked, he saw me talking, he said I should focus on it, work with it. I became a big fan of yours. I was always curious to know who on RU-vid could be "like" me, to be proud of. I see you as a perfect fit. Also thanks for all the tips. I loved it all
I am intrigued at all times by these coincidences in life, which seem to have no correlation whatsoever. I'm from Brazil and you're probably from the northern hemisphere (Europe or North America). We are so far apart but we are so alike, it makes me laugh.
This sort of perspective sounds more like an actual representation of what the authentic version of an actual eighteen year old is. So much of our culture in the west is about putting on armor to camouflage, or falling into the general stream of acceptable paths. This is so the Fi general journey that I think might be true for most Fi’s. If only we left our youth alone more to develop on their own organic paths. There are almost no wrong paths, just different ways that the individuals develop because even in negative environments and against type situations the person will grow if not also pick up some trauma and hopefully not so much to break, but it’s what we do with the journey. There are not a lot of career paths with amazing passion fusion with the individuals who have not also been set on the path to self growth and experienced at least a few stages of adversity and potential for growth. It’s the individual that is the element that is growing in life and the amass of those individuals in some sort of synergy that makes the Beautiful aspects in life. Rare experiences these are that are not a given, certainly not ones that you could prescribe to an eighteen year old.
That diagram was helpful and validating. I’ve been through this process twice now, lol. I knew my passion early on and pursued it exclusively at first. I hit a wall with how I was going about it in college. Then I found another passion, but I didn’t fully realize what options were available that would be the most sustainable and rewarding in the long term career-wise, and I went with the most obvious route. That was another trial-error but it took me 10 years to hit a dead-end, and then another 3 to figure out what went wrong. Now I’ve realized I can actually combine both passions, but it means taking a bigger risk when it comes to career. So, finding your passion is only part of the picture, and decisions about where your time and energy devoted to it will be best utilized can continously evolve over time. Great video!
I've been loving your channel man. I'm a fellow INTJ biracial computer wiz and I can relate to your experiences as college dropout, and pursuing a trade like cyber security. I'm about a year younger than you. All hail the RU-vid algorithm.
It's really great how you could get back to college whenever you want. In my country if 5 years pass from the time you graduate from high school you can no longer apply for college.
It took me 8 years of trial and error to find my passion.read the book mastery by robert greene ,implement that book and u will find your passion and become a master at it
This was a really great video and honestly may have helped my view regarding my passions. Thank you for sharing your experience. It also seems like you really enjoy doing these newer style of videos, they're awesome, keep them up.
Thank you for this excellent video! I found you from another channel through an INTJ 5w4 keyword search and thought it would worth checking out your channel. This topic has been on my mind for several years now. This video spoke to me!
🤓LoL I'm a professor in the TrickyD-ology; I'm the only expert in bein' me. Unfortunately I suffer from existential depression, so my passion has become to love my significant other passionately, that when I'm with her I'll forget all about my past & my future (aka existential depression).
Man, I'm really interested in programming, philosophy, psychology (MBTI also included) and making Anime Music Videos. Like, I really like these very much. Maybe I will find the commonalities that binds programming and the rest of the subjects I like. Your video reminded me of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken."
Your sudden disinterest in cybersecurity gave me a little bit of anxiety because I'm a 16 year old who's tunnel-visioning into cybersecurity with the exact same thought process as you. Now that I got shocked into realization, I really should look into other things while I have the time so that I won't get smitten down for my hubris in the future.
When you talked about liking video game and psychology it made me think of the health gamer channel. Do you watch it? If not check it out, it may be of interest to you.
Work only has more importance if that is what you value. Work to live or live to work. There are many in the world who would rather work part time or barely at all and just "get by" so they can pursue their interests more fully. If work, security, and financial stability are more important than personal interests, then that is perfectly fine as well. Just isn't that way for everyone.
The non monetisable passion will recharge and give u energy to do your non passion job.that is what i am doing.my free time passion is giving me energy to do the pay my bill jobs.if u do not find your passion u will have an emptiness that will never be filled with anything
Well thats not exactly true, the advice to just try things is a common sensor type of speech and works for sensors yes, but you never found your passion by trying things, you found it by researching, by then finding that mbti book and then you were able to take a psychology path which is your passion 😂 Then you could say but i tried all those things out to figure out what im not, yeh but you could just research about your self first to get that foundation being introspective and then go from there which is much quicker than advising people to spend 7 years for example just trying things.
