it’s similar to when hiring managers want individuals to “be themselves” the neurotics will out their weaknesses while the privileged will pass with flying colors and a viscerally felt vibration of Earnestness
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if ur born privileged the best advice is to “believe in urself” bc education, good communications skills, confidence, etc… are all “free” given the environment if not, then it’s likely bad advice bc wo cultural guardrails ur intuition is not so different than base instincts
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lack of confidence is almost always the bottleneck for everyone and imo is a personal endeavor try to increase it and u risk giving them an excuse to think w/e they want vice versa u risk creating depression
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if u’ve skiied or skateboarded or biked u know that there is a sixth sense for not doing things that will kill you as well as a constant desire to improve there is a natural “confidence compass”
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imo finding an activity that is so new and fresh that it reactivates this compass and releases past overly positive/negative conditioning is what “finding my passion” is really about the specific activity doesn’t matter. it’s a compass that does
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being “stuck” is searching for this newness only under the streetlamp bc “that’s where the light is” e.g. switching 10 different majors to find your passion doesn’t work bc it’s all still in the school system and subject to the conditioned reactive scripts towards this system
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