14 Feb This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome
Making your life better, working towards enjoying more happiness and success, is distinctly possible but it’s also distinctly hard work (at least it is for many of us much of the time).
But, at the same time, if you do it “right” it can also be fun!
How can you enjoy more happiness and make your life more awesome and have fun at the same time? Well, read on to learn more …
via Eric Barker
I’m always writing blog posts on how to improve your skills and do more of what you enjoy. But there’s a type of response I’ve gotten used to receiving:
“But what are my skills?”
“But what do I enjoy?”
This is distressing to me. It’s a spiritual catastrophe. Figuring out what you’re good at and what you really enjoy doing are so critical to life. And a lot of people struggle with finding those answers. Well, time to do a post that addresses this issue…
Whether you’re starting out in life or starting over — at anything from careers to hobbies to sports — how do you go from confused, to finding what’s right for you, to becoming an expert at it?
Wow, that’s… intimidating.
I feel like answering that is going to require a big expedition with a team of Sherpas. Hmm.
Okay, in my continuing effort to provide you with the best information possible, I will not provide the information… I’m going to have someone else do it. And that’s why I’m dumping all the hard work on my friend David Epstein.
If you’re just visiting Earth, David is the New York Times bestselling author of the intellectually ravishing books Range and The Sports Gene, both of which caused me to turn pages so fast I gave myself paper cuts. These are the kind of books that make you look forward to people being late for appointments so you can squeeze another chapter in.
He’s also recently launched an insightful and entertaining Substack that I strongly encourage you to sign up for.
If you’ve ever wondered how to find your passion and become an expert at it, you’re going to love this post. (And if you are the person who has to write these posts and you’ve ever wanted someone else to come along and do all the heavy lifting for you, you’re really going to love this post.)
Let’s get to it…
“Become A Scientist Of Yourself”
That’s a good line and, of course, David came up with it, not me, but it’s in big bold letters so the people who skim are probably going to give me credit for it, which is what really matters. Anyway…
When it comes to figuring out what we’re good at and what we’re passionate about, we’re told to introspect. To brainstorm. To think deeply about it…
… keep reading the full & original article HERE