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How To Discover And Pursue Your Passion

you've tried again Herman bar as we learn who we are in practice not in theory and so I think the biggest problem for young people is if they're

sitting around introspecting to try to figure out what their passion is go and try something it's not it's almost

certainly not going to be the first thing it may be you may get lucky but it's probably not going to be the first

thing so you should get going on that experiment process and start building a model of the world so that you can understand what your options are cuz I

also think the issue with passion and happiness is again like I was talking about I think it was can't remember

everything that was before the recording started and after um but like when I

used to run the 800 meters or now when I write books if you ask me to any given moment am I enjoying this am I happy

about it you know am I passionate about some's like no I want to throw my computer out the window are you crazy but it's so engaging it's so compelling

and it pushes me in a way to learn that I can't do just on my free time and so I don't think we have to think about just

passion find something that is so incredibly engaging to you uh and then

go from there and engaging really is how do you know that it's engage it's when you sort

of FL drop into that flow state where nothing else seems to matter or flow I mean flow is a tricky one because it's a

lot easier it it shows up a lot more in people that are like surfing or painting than it does in some kinds of knowledge work but I think it when you when you

get really engaged in something you a curiosity about how you can get better at it what else you can learn next so I think it it stimulates this kind of

curiosity That You Don't See in people when they're just in something where they're kind of going through the motions so you you start to understand

like when I I remember when my my then girlfriend now wife um it was important

to me you know for health that like both of us be lifelong exercisers for example and the first time we we moved in

together and I'm saying like all right we got to identify uh something that works for you and I take her to a gym and drop her off

and not realizing I have you know Decades of learning how to do stuff in a gym

that I take for granted and then I realiz okay I need to sort of walk this walk with her and so

we would try different things like running she wasn't as into that so then you know try some other thing etc etc and finally she found one kind of class

and she comes home this day we did this and then we did this it was so hard let me show you this other thing we did I'm like you found your thing and the one

problem was then when we were looking at moving States we had to be within 15 minutes of that kind of class walking

distance for any house that we were going to buy but it's like you can see this curiosity develop uh when someone

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hits something it's so engaging that they want to understand how to be better they want to talk to other people doing it they get so curious about it but you

have to experiment you have to experiment I wish there were a way out of that I wish you could say this is the thing that's going to work for you may

maybe someday with AI I maybe but highly unlikely highly unlikely um and and AI

just like changes the field that you're playing in right and so I think experimentation I think it's going to be

even more important as people can't expect to be doing the same thing their whole careers anymore I mean they're threads that they can expect to to carry

through but not the same exact thing when I saw your video called why Divergent thinkers beat Geniuses in the

real world I thought you were going to talk about neurod Divergence in the video so someone that was you know

diagnosed with ADHD maybe when I was about 30 years old I thought oh he's going to explain why neurod Divergence

things like ADHD and autism result in um better outcomes in the real world has

your work ever had any crossovers with NE Divergence not a lot but I mean I have read some of that work and I do

think something that's really important is the more different types of thinking that we can like get into a stew the

better off I think I think we all are I mean there are reasons why um ADHD like there's there's some

it's not it's not a big body of work but I think it's relevant where you can look at nomadic populations that then settled

and you can see certain genes that are associated with and these are these are small effects

um but you can see certain genes that are associated with uh like novelty seeking with with ADHD um will

apparently start to be like selected out once they settle and it's more common

when they're nomadic and what that suggest to me is that these are things this attentiveness to lots of different

stimuli that are really important have been important for us ancestrally and are still important and so they're still

here they may be maladaptive if you're telling someone they have to sit still in a classroom for 10 hours a day which

I think is a difficult environment for anyone to adjust to but I think to some extent and I think this has happened

sometimes in in some companies um that look for opportunities for people with Autism where you say okay where is this

adaptive where is this type of thinking adaptive instead of maladaptive so useful instead of unproductive and I

think if we're not doing that then you're missing opportunities to really use people who think differently from you yeah I mean it's interesting because

your work does whether it is endeavoring to or not it really does make a great case for diversity in the workplace yeah

yeah yeah uh you want to do a quiz sure pretend you're a doctor okay and I'm

your put my white coat in my head with a little stethoscope around my neck yeah okay because that's that's what all doctors look like um and and I'm your

patient okay and I've got a malignant stomach tumor and there's a new type of Ray or Focus radiation that can destroy

the tumor if it's at sufficient intensity the problem is at that intensity it will also destroy healthy

tissue in my stomach so how can you save me okay while you're thinking of that tell you a story there was once this

General had to capture a fortress to to liberate a country from a brutal dictator and he had plenty enough troops

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