I really need to stop jumping around and find my 'thing'. It upsets me that I have no consistent thing that I do/know about.
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Replying to @Samathy_Barratt
I guess this is because I haven't had much time to do things yet. But then there's people younger than me famous for doing/knowing X
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This is bothering me a lot recently. I have too many interests and don't have a focus on one.
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I can totally relate to this! I've bounced around 4 different disciplines
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Replying to @EveForster @Samathy_Barratt
There are ways of turning an interest in many things into a strength
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Creativity often comes from finding connections between disparate ideas, and you can do that better than people who only stick to one thing
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Replying to @EveForster @Samathy_Barratt
Best tip I can give is to find something interdisciplinary that allows you to change regularly. Like
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Oh also, I don't know if you're the same way but I have so many interests because it's easy for me to get excited about pretty much anything
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If that's true for you, pick sth you like for now & let the tides take you where they may. As
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While I believe there's tons of luck involved, it didn't sit 100% OK with me to describe my career/life as luck. Definitely a lot of it, but
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I wanted to be in cogsci since I was 17/18. I'm reluctant to allow much space for luck in retelling our life stories.
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I'd describe it more as doors that opened that I chose to go through. I either made them open, or luck
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