The hardest part about directing your career towards what you enjoy is discovering what you actually enjoy. This is even more difficult for someone 16-18 who has minimal expeerince to draw on.
99% of people think they need to find the right career FIELD In reality, you should look for QUALITIES of work you enjoy: - Buliding VS Maintaining - Recognition VS behind-the-scenes - Solitary VS Social Find the work with the right qualities and you'll love the work you do. ~Thomas Frank
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
The biggest problem with this is that most people have no clue what they even like & not enough life/work experience to know the options. What do you say to a small town waitress who hates her job but it’s all she knows?
Even if you like something, than you got to ask yourself is anyone going to pay for my thing. If not then it is more of a dedicated hobby. That is something this video doesn’t take into account.
The vibe. The vibe is what's most important. -I've worked HR in the insurance industry. -HR at a medical practice -HR anslyst in the HR IT industry - Business analyst for public health -Scrum Master for pharma The biggest factor of how well I enjoyed my job was the joy and vibe of the culture. The skill - I can adapt to. Consistently crappy people, I can not. Migrating from 20 years HR, namely in smaller( 200-300 ee's) companies to PM /Scrum in a massive org, was a decent shift. There were many ups and downs, but the culture lends heavily to the overall satisfaction of the job. I absolutely love my company ❤️
HR is very much worth it. I wanted to delve deeper into the IT space, so I pursued a Scrum Master career. Skill gets you 6 figures. Study your craft, find a mentor and keep at it.
@@brooke4616 It hurts how familiar that sounds. I dunno about you, but in my case I know that in some sense there is fear of regret involved and it requires to make a fixed decision, but man... At least let me know if everyone else struggles with this so much or if it's just a burden of a few, you know? 'Cause time waits for no one, and I'm losing some valuable time and probably missing a lot of opportunities in the meantime.
90 minutes a week is how much time I tell my beginner piano students to practice. That’s a great benchmark and good to know it applies elsewhere in life!
More teachers need to do this. My teacher insisted I do half an hour of scales every night before even playing any music. Such an archaic way of teaching that basically encourages kids to quit
For those reading this, don't forget about the courage and the faith that IT WILL WORK OUT. Or maybe it doesn't even have to work out. You only have to try. Have faith that what you like can be rewarded.
I'm currently in the career I thought I always wanted. Spent my entire childhood and young adult years focused on getting here. Ten years in and things have changed so much that I now dread going to work every day. It's terrifying to need to leave it because I have a good income with good benefits but I feel myself slowly dying inside.
i was feeling exactly the same after working in a job that i dont enjoy at all for almost 4 years. everyone was saying especially my parents that i shouldn't leave this job because the wage was good. it's like just existing but not living your life.
That was me going into healthcare. Besides time and money, I'd invested so much emotional energy into becoming that person, that I resisted leaving after it was clear it wasn't the right path for me and I was totally miserable! It took Covid for me to finally be able to leave.
@@TheKnellBelleI’m in healthcare right now and trying to find my escape. The money is good, and I live comfortable, but I just want to do something else. I’m currently learning web development in hopes to someday make money doing it.
Also, if you enjoy something but you know it may not be a profitable or practical career, you can pick it up as a hobby or side hustle. That way, your hobbies aren't tainted by the pressures of a job either
100% agree with this as someone who's worked in the creative field for almost 3 years and thinking of a career switch. The panic of 'wasting' my arts degree and multiple diplomas in different art and creative sectors terrified me. But as you've mentioned to make them my hobby, that way I can fully enjoy it without the pressure of making it my work and growing tired of it has been my saving grace and made me less nervous of starting a career change. (Especially coming from someone who wants to do EVERYTHING 😂)
It's funny bc it has always been the opposite for me. If I do my hobbies with no plan on turning them into a habit, it's like I enjoy them less bc I dont make them stick. And taking a job I dont like seems utterly impossible. So doing my hobbies with the intention to work on them really is what gives me the discipline to even pursue them at times. It's all or nothing for me. Either I get to do with at all times and get better, or it seems kind of hollow to show up for things in a dovided way, where my hobbies dont grow bc I take more time for other things, and those same things domt seem to have a point for me
Why would you not want to have (or MAKE) a career in anything other than what you enjoy most? Side hustles are not sustainable because they're just that, on the "side". Very few people in this world have the capacity to maintain ONE career focus let alone manage (or grow) side hustles. The secret is simple... find what you love to do that serves a need in people, and go and do THAT. The reason why most people never find or stick with "THAT" is because they're chasing a fantasy that doing what you "love" means you won't face challenges or pain. And so they give up at the first sign of pain. This means you do NOT really "love" it because the definition of "love" is to accept both its positives AND its negatives equally. So the secret within the secret is to ask, "what is it I love to do that serves a need? and what do I love SO MUCH that I'd be willing to go through all the inevitable pain and challenges to keep doing it?" Once you've found that, then go for it. It could be working for someone else but it's most likely going to be starting your own business, because that way you have more control over where you want to take YOUR vision and service to the world. And to anyone reading this, I know what you're probably thinking... "but starting my own business is WAY too risky... what if I fail?" And my answer would be KEEP DIGGING, because you haven't found it yet. Once you've found it, you will let NOTHING stop you. I'm not saying quit your job the day you find it. But you're not here to live someone else's life. You're here to find what YOU truly love to do (remember, both the pleasure AND pain), and then SERVE PEOPLE with it. There's never a shortage of opportunities, money, or fulfilment for those who are courageous enough to follow this path.
3 months ago I left my high paying job, moved my family to Mexico, and now what I do all day is pursuing my dream career - to create video. It's scary, but exciting!
...And if you have Adhd like me and looking back you wanted to be everything! An astronaut, astronomer, computer scientist, computer programmer, make up artist for TV, actor, psychologist,teacher, architect, doctor, entrepreneur, health promotion, sales person, fashion designer, TV lighting technician, traveller, presenter, radio DJ, owner of amusement park, wildlife expert and the list goes on and on etc etc etc😂😂😂
2 months ago, I dropped out of Engineering College. Now, I am just focusing on the things that I love, making videos and singing. Sometimes, It's worrying but very exciting
I am doing really well. I have 3-4 regular clients for video editing and earning a decent living. Still, making my own videos and learning to sing too.
I just want to tell you that you made the right choice and I’m proud of you. I did the opposite thing chasing what makes money instead of what I love and I regret it.
Discovering a fulfilling career involves focusing on daily tasks, visualizing aspirations, auditing time, skill development, online learning, embracing change, and iterative exploration.
An arrow needs to be pulled back in order to fly forward - That's the picture I kept having in mind when I went back to university completing a different degree I had been resistant to during my young adulthood. I was married already, 10+ years older than my fellow students and struggling not to feel like a complete loser. Now, 8 years later, I'm glad I had the courage to take that u-turn
I truly don't see how anybody could be blind to the amount of change going on even on the milliseconds level. The light, the air movement, the molecules making up the air in the room, the cellular division going on in your body, the general circumstances of your life; it's all changing all the time, infinitely.
I've watched probably 10 TED talks and other videos searching for this answer but none have resonated as much as yours did. You've brilliantly explained and given tools to both those who know want they want and those who dont know what they want and been so validating at echoing that we change over time. 13 mins a day omg you've made that so manageable. OMG, I cant be thankful enough... I have been struggling for so long with this feeling of emptiness that I no longer want to be in my field that I've spent years studying for but now I dont know what else to do, that I dont have the energy to study at uni again, and just cant figure things out. Did so many career tests, looked through entire job lists, searched for rare jobs or whatever to just try to figure out what resonates with me, what is it that I want to do... Thank you so much.. I'll get going with this exercise.. Once again, hearty thanks :)
Your intended career may not be giving you lots of money from the onset, But if you focus fully on it relentlessly, you will get absolutely everything from it; money, impact, fulfillment, satisfaction and mind-blowing connections with people who will value your career path🔥
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
You've got it! As cliché as it sounds, you just have to start. It will always be scary, but that doesn't mean you can't try. I just recently star,ted and I'm so happy I did. Best of luck. Sounds like you have the perfect resolution for the new year.
@@christhornhamThis is a mistake in your thought process, "Perfect resolution for the new year" people shouldn't be waiting for January 1st to start something, for example, it's the end of September now, Start now? Why wait for the new year? If you start now you'll be 3 months ahead of where you would be if you started on 1st of January.
@@Exidose I made this comment when it was the New Year. I didn't say people should wait until the New Year to make a positive change. Instead, I was referencing the fact that it was the New Year when I made the comment. I see how this may be confusing if you read the comment today without looking at the date it was posted.
Exactly where I am right now! I'm thinking of leaving my current job of 5 years and start doing content creation as I enjoy creating. But I think I'm feeling stuck because I don't have the confidence to😢
Tip 1: think about the tasks that you would be doing on a day-to-day basis rather than the title. A lot of your happiness is governed by your day-to-day. Tip 2: what would ME+ be doing basically a more Indepth explanation of tip 1.what kind of tasks is your "me+ doing" on a day-to-day basis? Tip 3: Journal your time and what you're doing. Similar to how a personal trainer audits their diet and what they eat do the same thing with your day this also emphasizes tip 2 by putting a + or - sign next to activities that you enjoyed or didn't enjoy Tip 4: 13 minutes a day = 90 minutes a week towards building in a skill that is useful/in your future that your me+ version needs Tip 5: You don't need to go back to university. I agree with this one forsure because you can get education online anywhere now. Tip 6: its okay to change ur mind completely. The illusion that as u get older the harder it is to change is NOT true..people underestimate their ability to change as they get older way too much Tip 7: Draw it out look at all the things you enjoy and find overlap
So true, so important to remember that happiness comes from your everyday and that's what you need to focus on. Also so important to look at the tasks that you want to do to make the decision completely agree. Embracing change is another important one. Great video!
Ali, you may not be a practicing physician, but you are bringing healing, health, and hope into many people's lives. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
RUclips recommended me this video a few times already and I’ll admit that I never watched it because it seemed like one of those shallow, if-you-can-dream-it-you-can-do-it, fairytale self-help videos. I decided to watch it and was gladly surprised. It was a simple and to the point video, with actual tips and counsel. Thanks for proving me wrong 😅
Thank you so much. Too many videos I watched generalized and fantasized the whole process of figuring out my goal career but this has really cleared it up for me. To all those thinking about how you want it to go take it like I did. When you workout, you have a dream body or dream strength and you’ll do all you need to do to get there and avoid what keeps you from there. You may not see the results now but there's signs and as long as you're intentional in going towards your interest you’ll reap what you sow. Your future's only in two beings' hands, God first then yourself. Be intentional, work hard and whatever you can't control, God will.❤
my dad had me think about why my favorite jobs have been my favorite jobs. i realized that i enjoy a team effort, and being able to look at my peers after a hard day’s work and be like: yes, we did that! i enjoy the feeling of accomplishing a goal at the end of each day. i’ve learned i would kind of like being able to visibly see the work that i have done. i’ve learned that project- based tasks are really fun for me. this is all stuff that was the complete opposite of the plan i formulated in high school. i’m so glad i took a few years off to work different jobs and have experiences in different types of work. now that i know what kind of work i enjoy, and have a passion that relates to it, i’m ready to go back to school. all this to say, take some time off of school or slow it down a bit. spend some time in different jobs and learn the type of work you like, then find a career that ties that together with one of your passions.
I really needed this! I went to college and had no idea what I wanted to major in. I changed my major a few times and ended up sticking with communications because it was versatile. Jobs I was interested in at that time were journalism and social media marketing. I ended up doing internships for both and ended up not really enjoying those certain career paths. After graduating I felt lost and was thinking a lot about jobs that interest me and I would research about them to see if they were jobs that I would actually enjoy doing. Most of the time I would search up videos on RUclips like “day in the life as (job title)” and would see the tasks that they would do and if I would be happy doing them. Right now I’m at the point where I’m really lost and have no idea what I want to do. Every time I try to imagine myself in a career, my mind would just go blank. I’m going to try out these tips and hopefully it can lead me to something as I still have hope! ☺️
Lollll I am considering going to school for "Digital Arts" as well, encompassing writing graphic design and web design. Seems like it could be liberating creatively and perhaps lucrative. But I have no idea if I will actually want to do it?! I've dropped out of college 3 or 4 times. 28 now. I know what my dream job is. But it costs money to get there and also, don't even know what type of mundane job I can get to support that let alone one that pays enough to support myself anyway whilst providing enough mental stability and engagement
@@McMilesE that seems like a great career path! What I did when I was thinking of careers that required me to go back to school was I always researched what the major offers, what type of jobs you can get out of the major, what are the tasks that you would e doing for those jobs, how much is the salary for those jobs, and is there a growth in jobs. Most of the time I would also look at Indeed and LinkedIn and search for the jobs related to the major and see the job postings. Going back to school is a lot of money and time so I would research everything I can possible. If it is something that you feel in your heart that you want to do and can imagine yourself doing a particular job then maybe you should consider going to school. ☺️
This so true! Working in healthcare, you just thought it is as easy as treating patients. But u need to answer loads of phone calls, customer service, be on your feet in the entire shift, too little breaks, too many running/walking around, the lists goes on. These tasks are not mentioned when i was in school yet this is the tasks you are doing every single day which makes me re-think of my career choices. Do i really like this? Coz back when i was a kid, i like to play pretend to be working in an office not a play-pretend in a hospital. Maybe office task is my forte? Coz office task is what i enjoyed back when i play pretend?
Knowing what day to day tasks you enjoy is huge, as is knowing what skills they require, what it takes to acquire them, and if you already have some! Attention to detail is a big one for me and I love pattern recognition and finding small quirks or oversights (such as the person entering the far left of frame at 5:04 :P)
I resonate with the lessons from this book more than Cal Newport theory where he says Don' think too much about your passion infact think about what your job/career can take you (e.g. better life style, future security etc). But Grace Lordan emphasizes more around the actual Tasks of the job itself. I agree more with her theory. Thanks
I do agree that we should always think of the tasks that we enjoy to understand what our dream job is. But the thing is sometimes you thought you would be doing this if you were in this career, but it turns out that the things that you do are so different from what you envisioned. 😢
Boy do I feel you.. I chose my major as mechanical engineering thinking I would get to design all sorts of mechanisms and work with all sorts of new machines everyday. I do get to explore new mechanisms now and then but not nearly as much as I would have wanted to ..
Agreed, got into education because I loved the kids and something new everyday. Had NO idea I’d mostly be dealing with incompetent admin, disrespect from kids and parents, for no pay (I did know that part from the start though…)
exactly dude. i’m 17 years old and school has killed my dreams of anything i have ever wanted be. they don’t teach the important skills in life like how to find careers you like
I'm done in college but I landed on a job as a contractual illustrator even my course is education major in technology and livelihood education since fine arts is not available here in my province. I'm still grateful. Atleast I'm not jobless anymore.
I come from an “engineer, lawyer or doctor” family/country. I have a lot of “that’s a nice hobby, not a job“ interests and very few career paths that are actually feasible. I just wish my talents aligned into something that pays enough to live alone without financial worries.
Love the part about changing your mind! I feel like it takes more integrity to say I was wrong, let’s do this differently, than being stubborn to stick to something that’s not working. Great video.
In Personal MBA book the author also notes that you don’t have to get an MBA degree in university to become successful in your business, most of what is taught there, can actually be learned by reading books. And also the interview with professor Lordan seems so interesting.
The way I figured out from talking to other people how to decide what career and occupation you want is to get a general education in college to get an idea of where your best knowledge area is, know your abilities, and skills and obviously it should be based off your desires, passions, interests, values, and what's important to you. If you search your community through your local library or local colleges you can find resources to help that like aptitude tests and career exploration to get a description of each job and to learn other things about. Then you pick a college based on its credentials and how they meet your needs if they do and how their reputation is and get a basic knowledge of that school and what they offer. It's good to make a resume with not just job experience but any possible volunteering, your interests, skills, abilities, and hobbies and a description of yourself. Its also good to prepare for interviews by knowing questions they might ask.
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
Much needed video, there's no channel like Ali's, the topics of these videos are so useful and I don't see any other creator giving such actionable advice
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
I’m 24 years old I studied medicine since I was 17 in university I did very well but did not enjoy it at all. When I wanted to leave and study engineering because I enjoy it and find I could help a lot more people that way but I got very negative feedback on my thoughts so I stuck in medicine. I have never regretted anything in my life than this decision.
Ali is the only RUclipsr I have to watch on 075 speed lol. Everyone else I watch on 1.25x. That being said Ali I LOVE your stuff! You pack so much good information into 10-15 minute videos and it's majorly appreciated. You're also inspiring me to start my own RUclips channel.
I just do something I'm good at so I can do it quickly and work less than 8 hrs a day from home. I love that I get paid well for doing something so low effort for me. I have no passion for anything in a "devote your life to it" sort of way, and I don't think everyone has to have that. I like to do tons of different things in short bursts.
Thank you for this video. I have been a veterinarian for 12 years. I had niggling from the beginning that it wasn’t what I want to do for the rest of my life. Those nigglings got louder and louder in the years. I have reached an impasse and now looking at what careers are out there that would be my home. I’m just at the beginning… thank you for showing me that it can be done!
I like the idea of thinking big as this can feel scary at first, breaking it down and taking small steps based on being informed because it is filling in the gaps in our knowledge that allows us to make better career decisions, thanks for sharing.
This is the first video ive ever seen of yours and wanted to say thank you!! Its not only incredibly helpful but organized in a way i can implement changes 🙏
I love everything aside from the point of continuing going to uni. There are so many hands on boot camps out there that can give you entrepreneurial experience and help you position yourself in the job market. I’m a college opt out. Age 27, no debt, and with a great paying job. You don’t need to go to school and get in debt.
This is why present education pathways at the moment are actually road blocks instead of being catalysts. It holds you back into institutional thinking instead of actually visualizing, experiencing what it being laid in front of you. Just because the paths of the ones before us have been laid, doesnt mean anyone of us cant move ways. The institutional way of teaching, learning and experiencing lacks the basic power of an indiviual which is to individuate and have great discernment.
I’m on a “job break” right now and your videos have helped me tremendously. I’m using this time to learn more about myself and the type of career I want. Thank you!
Better have a plan B and C. I know someone who started his job with 16 and loved it, really enjoyed it. But physical labor. Now at 45 his back is so damaged, that he cannot keep doing his dream job. Never thought about doing anything else, that would be tough on anyone.
i was having second thoughts about what i was doing recently. it was not smth that inspired me or what i like to doing. but i paid for education course and and i have to at least try to make it work. but looking in a bigger perspective, i think we all have to step by step create a career that we'll enjoy. thanks for the video. now i have a clearer picture of what i want in future
The tips in this video are good but I think the Japanese author of a book called "yaritai koto no mitsukekata (the method of finding what you really want to do)" has a more systematic and sure way of finding what kind of career you would genuinely love. Basically, you need to understand yourself to find your values, what you are good at (similar to tip 1 in this video, you enjoy doing the tasks you are good at), and what you like. When all these 3 are aligned, which is very similar to Ikigai, then that is the career you would love. The book has many questions to really understand yourself and it has really helped me. Unfortunately the book is in Japanese, but I think the author is in the works of spreading his seminars to other parts of the world.
What hinges you to finding the work you love is your uniqueness. I think we go off with this perception that the title will make us love the career but it’s opposite the purpose makes you love the career and you have to figure out. How can you purposely give back and show up every day. ❤ I encourage you not to put so much pressure on yourself and just be open to what you can be.
Recently had a epiphany that I was making a career choice based on idealizing the title vs reviewing about how I felt about the day to day reality of the tasks associated with the career choice
Having graduated as a civil engineer, I always wanted to design and help people. I kept applying for jobs as an engineer being an international student in Australia. But after 100s of job interviews and spending thousands of dollars on my cv, networking and improving LinkedIn I am still stuck in a limbo. Sometimes you have the passion, the skills you need to be working and implementing your ideas. But then your conditions and luck are not on your favour. Sometimes it’s just not enough….
i really loved this concept of 90 minutes a week because I wanted to switch to computer science field and for that I hardly study 30 minutes a day and used to think I'm not giving my all guess I have to start complimenting myself for the efforts i'm putting into that career
Start figuring out what you don't like doing. And I don't mean specific jobs but work situations. For example if you dislike constantly meeting people that you've never seen before, then don't become a medical doctor, sales representative, consultant... That way you can narrow down the choices.
Get some hands on experience in a heap of different fields. And like the other person said you can definitely get rid of what you don’t want to do. Things like high stress jobs, outdoors vs indoors etc. For example I always knew I would despise working solely in an office and that cuts out a heap of potential jobs for me.
To be honest, it feels so frustrating where you don’t know where to start searching, where to find answers. I’ve been through that myself, and in the process I found astrology, I just wanted to find an answer for what career, company or job should I look for. So I studied astrology for several years to find an answer, and I got it. It made total sense to me, and now I’m working on making this career vision happen. I must say that, in this process, it was important to let go the ego part that didn’t want to change some old versions of myself but it’s a process. Finding an answer is just the beginning.
This was actually very insightful. I like how u said its about figuring it out and to be patient, and also I’ve felt the minuses in my schedule a lot, which often frustrated me. The 13 minutes a day seems very manageable, thx!
Hi Ali, you're a wonderful speaker. Ideas have to be easy to digest and entertaining and you do so like a pro. Thank you. I'm reading your book "Feel good productivity" and I wouldn't go for such a "magic pill" title if not for your videos (showing that you're a smart person first of all).
the most productive things i found is stop watching productive videos instead stay away from consumption and self reflect and work on what you want. Tell me id I am wrong
- Tip 1: Task Over Title (0:42) - Tip 2: Visualize Your Me Plus (2:22) - Tip 3: Audit Your Time (4:13) - Tip 4: 13 Minutes a Day (5:27) - Tip 5: No Need for University (7:05) - Tip 6: Embrace U-Turns (8:04) - Tip 7: The Grid Search Mindset (10:21)
Ali, please come to Australia to speak. i would pay to see you speak you are such an inspirational person! I am going to buy this book my professor Grace Lordan so thank you for bringing this to light.
Thank you! You have absolutely confirmed what I interpreted to have been functional echolalia in myself. In particular the use of quotes to express an exact feeling/thought to describe the situation. I met my husband almost 10 years ago at a party and we were sitting next to each other, the only ones at the table not engaged in conversation. I addressed the awkwardness by quoting Ralph Wiggum “so… do you like stuff?” To which he replied “my cat’s breath smells like cat food” 😍 I hadn’t heard of scripting before this video, but funnily enough I used this on our first date as was so nervous I wouldn’t have anything to say so had made am mental list of conversation topics to pull from if needed 🙈
Most times strategies works when well applied, In the past I use to have serious phobia for trade because I don't want to lose all my money but I'm very profitable and it has become my best passive income from the first time I bought my house through trade and not salary
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
This is so true about the tasks. I got into one job lately and I absolutely hate the tasks! I will be thinking of what I want to be “doing ” in my next job and I hope I can find out SOON!
this video was of 13 minutes of investing in myself, thank you :) Even though i fee l like i will be going into a field i am already so passionate about, i was still able to pocket so many of the ideas in this video to protect myself in the future.
I actually do like my work. Not saying i"d rather work than be with family or friends or just chill. But work being mandatory, at least I don't hate what i do. I basically do something I find meaningful and enjoyable. And, as this video mentions, I like the tasks!
I'm an English language teacher in Mexico. I never had any dream career while growing up and here I am, just enjoying what I do but I don't know if it's really my passion or if I will keep doing this forever until I finally retire.
To anyone watching: Do the 90 minute in one or two chunks a week, not actually 13 minutes a day. Task switching costs time and energy. Also, there's less chance that you miss that "daily" tasks on weekends or due to the unpredictability of life. You can easily reschedule a 45minute chunk, but you probably won't with a 13minute task.
Wrong. Learning needs lots of correctly spaced repetition first and foremost. So even if it takes you more time, it's worth it, because thanks to the Ebbinghaussche learning curve, you'll remember better what you have learned by revisiting the content in a well spaced out time (repeating all in one day or 1 week apart is NOT effective, at least not as effective as revisiting content every day/ after 24h) and thus your time spent will be more effective. Of course more learning time than just 13 min would be better, but in the end just from a learning effectiveness point, learning in such small junks daily is WAY ahead of learning in one or fewer long sitting(s) per week.
@@SandraSuesser That might be all true (though I imagine there might be differences depending on if the material is *new* or if I'm revisiting). But it's not my point. For a busy person like me, a new daily task of 13 minutes might be dropped more often than not. Also, thinks to task switching, I might either be only learning for actual 3-5 minutes or it will take additional time out of the next task or I just need another break to support task switching. Considering your information, it might be useful to make one or two bigger chunks per week (maybe on the weekend) and then revisit the learned material from those chunks in small 10 minutes snacks where you just revisit and not add *new* information?
@@SandraSuesser To learn something deep you have to get into the context, that takes time. So 13 minutes might not even result in any finished result. So incomplete, imagine having 7 those 13 minutes sittings and not making any result. Also not effective, flow state is achieved in 15-45 minutes.
Career Development has been researching and working with these ideas for many years. She's done a great job incorporating some of the most effective self efficacy building strategies in one place- certainly for a general western context. Will have to check it out.
Love the quote "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future." 11:18 We need to remind ourselves that it is ok to take risks, try new things, and still fall short! Even if you fall short in the goal you initially envisioned, you will learn something else about yourself, in pursuit of that goal! We need to trust ourselves that the lessons we learn in life will allow us to connect the dots eventually! Thank you @aliabdaal
Honestly after being MISERABLE at my first 3 professional jobs I just gave up for a while. Transitioned into gigs to survive and make money until I take the plunge again. The pandemic didn't help when it took away all options for life and relationship-building outside of work, leaving only the corporate top-secret dungeon where I would slowly wither away before I left for another company. The other company was the complete opposite - parties, extraversion, life. But that was too much for me, and I hated the actual content of the work.
Lawyer here (who just quit and looking to focus on what I enjoy). Young waitress who wants to be lawyer asked for my advice. I said, create a 24 hour period you look forward to. Go work at a firm and see you look forward to each 24-hour block. If you don't, then do something else. Making more money doing something you don't enjoy can't buy back the time lost to doing things that you don't enjoy plus the time lost stressing over it even when you're not doing it. It's crazy that we don't spend all spend a year rotating through different career fields to see what it's actually like on a day-to-day basis.
As a high school counselor, I believe this emphasis on 'finding your passion' is oftentimes oversimplified. Before he/she can 'find their passion," the average individual has to first deal with a lot of psychological baggage/attitudes that unconsciously hold back the individual - something that's beyond the time & resource constraints that most people are willing to put in. Additionally, it seems that these 'passions' (for most people) seem to start as any structured activity the individual is FORCED to do that 'becomes habit,' that they then interpret as 'them being good at it.' This is the main part - if you're good at something, you enjoy doing it, and a passion develops. You don't "find your passion." You develop it.
You have to make big decisions about your career before you are 18, yet chances you have no idea what people do on day to day. It was even worse 10-20 years ago, but even now most people who "give you advice" parents, teachers, etc have very little knowledge about what doctor or a trader does every day.
I think that is precisely why these tips are so helpful. Admitting you don't enjoy labor is so relatable to me. However, we really need food and shelter that hopefully reduces mental/physical and financial misery. This video gives some tools to define in which jobs you would be less likely to feel awful and drained, after all, most of us can't afford to not work, so we might as well be strategic about it, with our peace and well-being as priority. At least, that's my take on it. If you can, look into silence ambition and also, contemplate what would be the best case scenario if you had no other choice to work in order to survive and maintain your sanity/health. You don't necessarily need to love whatever you choose, just try to think about options that on the long run don't leave you soulless or isn't that much of a burden to complete. I'm currently quitting a civil engineering path, because after some years on the field, I realized the price to pay to maintain it: my peace, health, time with family and for my personal interests. I'm currently trying out teaching preschool, teaching English as second language, closet organization/declutter, selling homemade goods and programming, all from zero and part-time, depending on what is on demand. Even tho it could sound a bit overwhelming and messy, I get to somehow control my time and stress better, I have "seasons" and this dynamic keeps me motivated, avoiding mental and physical stagnation. The only "sacrifice" is the luxuries I'm "missing" and perhaps the social status, but I'm at peace. I truly hope you find your answers and have a peaceful life or hope you win the lottery and get to afford that "no labor" freedom you mentioned.
Great video, Ali! Those pen (highlighter) spins really add to the B-rolls 😂 In all seriousness, I often think I get trapped in the Burmuda social media triangle, but your videos add so much value to my life. ++
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
Sir 😂 I suffer from attention disorder, the pen flip tricks you do is sooo awesome to look at haha I heard some parts you said but most importantly I practiced the pen trick too haha
I feel like I've come back to this Video about 1000 times so it's fitting that I get the satisfaction of turning this 999 comments into 1000 😌 Thanks Ali for this quality content!
It is interesting how powerful is building an "imaginary great you" works on people. I think that the "Me+" concept looks like the concept mentioned in The Alter Ego Effect book. But I can not confirm that because I am still reading it.
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
An arrow needs to be pulled back in order to fly forward - That's the picture I kept having in mind when I went back to university completing a different degree I had been resistant to during my young adulthood. I was married already, 10+ years older than my fellow students and struggling not to feel like a complete loser. Now, 8 years later, I'm glad I had the courage to take that u-turn.
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
This was great, thank you! I think I’ve finally found what I’m good at, role wise, but know that the industry I’ve been in for the last 10 years is not the right fit.
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Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
Funny I came across your video today. What you talk about is exactly what I am naturally doing at the moment and what I will keep on doing. :) keep up the good work! Sending love from Belgium.
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
The hardest part about directing your career towards what you enjoy is discovering what you actually enjoy. This is even more difficult for someone 16-18 who has minimal expeerince to draw on.
So true
me
yes that's what i click into this video for
going through this rn
@@shanellerianab.vallespin9472 Me too
99% of people think they need to find the right career FIELD
In reality, you should look for QUALITIES of work you enjoy:
- Buliding VS Maintaining
- Recognition VS behind-the-scenes
- Solitary VS Social
Find the work with the right qualities and you'll love the work you do.
~Thomas Frank
very true
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
So spot on!
Gonna remember this when I get some vacation time to reconsider some life choices...
@Jisoos Christ For me is software engineering vs cyber security
The biggest problem with this is that most people have no clue what they even like & not enough life/work experience to know the options. What do you say to a small town waitress who hates her job but it’s all she knows?
Even if you like something, than you got to ask yourself is anyone going to pay for my thing. If not then it is more of a dedicated hobby. That is something this video doesn’t take into account.
I'd tell her to sell everything she has and start anew with a different job, in a different part of the world
@@lacey2450”a different job” What job??
@@pickledirick8338 haha
The vibe. The vibe is what's most important.
-I've worked HR in the insurance industry.
-HR at a medical practice
-HR anslyst in the HR IT industry
- Business analyst for public health
-Scrum Master for pharma
The biggest factor of how well I enjoyed my job was the joy and vibe of the culture.
The skill - I can adapt to.
Consistently crappy people, I can not.
Migrating from 20 years HR, namely in smaller( 200-300 ee's) companies to PM /Scrum in a massive org, was a decent shift. There were many ups and downs, but the culture lends heavily to the overall satisfaction of the job. I absolutely love my company ❤️
I am thinking of hr. How is it? Can I earn 6 figures? What is scrum?
Same Question
Is hr not worth
It seems intresting to me coz it's pol oriented
HR is very much worth it. I wanted to delve deeper into the IT space, so I pursued a Scrum Master career. Skill gets you 6 figures. Study your craft, find a mentor and keep at it.
@@shesssosavvy Thank youu!!;
"It's OK to change your mind!"
I wish my parents could understand this
Yeah, well... The problem with me is that I change my mind every single month. That's not healthy nor edifying either.
@@SantiagoJ.Pereira i do too and it kills me, and then i think i know what i want to do but i constantly second guess it
@@brooke4616 It hurts how familiar that sounds. I dunno about you, but in my case I know that in some sense there is fear of regret involved and it requires to make a fixed decision, but man... At least let me know if everyone else struggles with this so much or if it's just a burden of a few, you know? 'Cause time waits for no one, and I'm losing some valuable time and probably missing a lot of opportunities in the meantime.
@@SantiagoJ.PereiraI literally feel the same way right now
90 minutes a week is how much time I tell my beginner piano students to practice. That’s a great benchmark and good to know it applies elsewhere in life!
More teachers need to do this. My teacher insisted I do half an hour of scales every night before even playing any music. Such an archaic way of teaching that basically encourages kids to quit
Do you have a channel?
Practice for fun? There's so much time needed to make it career, with time blocks only. This 15 minutes a day is so fake.
@@IrrationalDelusion I said *beginner* piano students. Not those seeking a career in music. I tell my music majors to practice four hours/day.
@@IrrationalDelusion15 minute a day to code is stupid try 2 hours every night learning python, that is more realistic
For those reading this, don't forget about the courage and the faith that IT WILL WORK OUT. Or maybe it doesn't even have to work out. You only have to try. Have faith that what you like can be rewarded.
Thank you, important choice of words
Instead of worrying it's more important to have hope
Thank you!!
Some of us have dependants whose wellbeing we can't afford to put on the line.
You been given your gifts for a reason, find out what they are and then give them away.
am i the only one whos had career stress since i was like 9
Nope I had a conversation with a friend about this yesterday and I’m 25 still having this problem
think it started at 12
Yep, and I am coming on 27 years old and I'm still not certain what I want to do.
My career stress started around age 15. Decades later, it has not subsided.
You shouldn't have any career pressure at that age.
I'm currently in the career I thought I always wanted. Spent my entire childhood and young adult years focused on getting here. Ten years in and things have changed so much that I now dread going to work every day. It's terrifying to need to leave it because I have a good income with good benefits but I feel myself slowly dying inside.
Take a U turn! You’ll do great!!
and whats the career ur doing?
i was feeling exactly the same after working in a job that i dont enjoy at all for almost 4 years. everyone was saying especially my parents that i shouldn't leave this job because the wage was good. it's like just existing but not living your life.
That was me going into healthcare. Besides time and money, I'd invested so much emotional energy into becoming that person, that I resisted leaving after it was clear it wasn't the right path for me and I was totally miserable! It took Covid for me to finally be able to leave.
@@TheKnellBelleI’m in healthcare right now and trying to find my escape. The money is good, and I live comfortable, but I just want to do something else. I’m currently learning web development in hopes to someday make money doing it.
Also, if you enjoy something but you know it may not be a profitable or practical career, you can pick it up as a hobby or side hustle. That way, your hobbies aren't tainted by the pressures of a job either
I literally had this realization last night and felt so much pressure taken off that I could think so much clearer 😅
100% agree with this as someone who's worked in the creative field for almost 3 years and thinking of a career switch. The panic of 'wasting' my arts degree and multiple diplomas in different art and creative sectors terrified me. But as you've mentioned to make them my hobby, that way I can fully enjoy it without the pressure of making it my work and growing tired of it has been my saving grace and made me less nervous of starting a career change. (Especially coming from someone who wants to do EVERYTHING 😂)
It's funny bc it has always been the opposite for me. If I do my hobbies with no plan on turning them into a habit, it's like I enjoy them less bc I dont make them stick. And taking a job I dont like seems utterly impossible. So doing my hobbies with the intention to work on them really is what gives me the discipline to even pursue them at times.
It's all or nothing for me. Either I get to do with at all times and get better, or it seems kind of hollow to show up for things in a dovided way, where my hobbies dont grow bc I take more time for other things, and those same things domt seem to have a point for me
Already have hobbies. That doesn't help.
Why would you not want to have (or MAKE) a career in anything other than what you enjoy most? Side hustles are not sustainable because they're just that, on the "side". Very few people in this world have the capacity to maintain ONE career focus let alone manage (or grow) side hustles. The secret is simple... find what you love to do that serves a need in people, and go and do THAT. The reason why most people never find or stick with "THAT" is because they're chasing a fantasy that doing what you "love" means you won't face challenges or pain. And so they give up at the first sign of pain. This means you do NOT really "love" it because the definition of "love" is to accept both its positives AND its negatives equally. So the secret within the secret is to ask, "what is it I love to do that serves a need? and what do I love SO MUCH that I'd be willing to go through all the inevitable pain and challenges to keep doing it?" Once you've found that, then go for it. It could be working for someone else but it's most likely going to be starting your own business, because that way you have more control over where you want to take YOUR vision and service to the world. And to anyone reading this, I know what you're probably thinking... "but starting my own business is WAY too risky... what if I fail?" And my answer would be KEEP DIGGING, because you haven't found it yet. Once you've found it, you will let NOTHING stop you. I'm not saying quit your job the day you find it. But you're not here to live someone else's life. You're here to find what YOU truly love to do (remember, both the pleasure AND pain), and then SERVE PEOPLE with it. There's never a shortage of opportunities, money, or fulfilment for those who are courageous enough to follow this path.
3 months ago I left my high paying job, moved my family to Mexico, and now what I do all day is pursuing my dream career - to create video. It's scary, but exciting!
Congratulations on following your dream! 👏🏽
Congratulations! Wish you and your family the best 🙏
I hope for your success. But remember what Cal said about following your passion.
@Giga Chad Thank you!! 🙏
@@PokhrajRoy. 🙏
...And if you have Adhd like me and looking back you wanted to be everything! An astronaut, astronomer, computer scientist, computer programmer, make up artist for TV, actor, psychologist,teacher, architect, doctor, entrepreneur, health promotion, sales person, fashion designer, TV lighting technician, traveller, presenter, radio DJ, owner of amusement park, wildlife expert and the list goes on and on etc etc etc😂😂😂
Ohmyghad SAME HAHAHAHA
Lollllll sameee
I think I have to test myself for ADHD 😌
Omg saaammee I’ve changed my major like 4 times 😂
$@mee lol
2 months ago, I dropped out of Engineering College. Now, I am just focusing on the things that I love, making videos and singing. Sometimes, It's worrying but very exciting
And now? 8 months later.
I am doing really well. I have 3-4 regular clients for video editing and earning a decent living. Still, making my own videos and learning to sing too.
I just want to tell you that you made the right choice and I’m proud of you. I did the opposite thing chasing what makes money instead of what I love and I regret it.
@@IMDavid25glad to see that! 🎉
davittu nejamavah, namba mudiyalaiyah?
@@IMDavid25
Bro speaks in 1.25x
I thought it was just me. Had to double check my playback speed 😂
@@runningdevil me too
It adds to the stress
i actually really prefer when people talk like this, its a normal speed for me
Good for me, I always speed up videos because people talk too slow
Discovering a fulfilling career involves focusing on daily tasks, visualizing aspirations, auditing time, skill development, online learning, embracing change, and iterative exploration.
An arrow needs to be pulled back in order to fly forward - That's the picture I kept having in mind when I went back to university completing a different degree I had been resistant to during my young adulthood. I was married already, 10+ years older than my fellow students and struggling not to feel like a complete loser. Now, 8 years later, I'm glad I had the courage to take that u-turn
Beautifully expressed ❤️
I truly don't see how anybody could be blind to the amount of change going on even on the milliseconds level. The light, the air movement, the molecules making up the air in the room, the cellular division going on in your body, the general circumstances of your life; it's all changing all the time, infinitely.
I've watched probably 10 TED talks and other videos searching for this answer but none have resonated as much as yours did. You've brilliantly explained and given tools to both those who know want they want and those who dont know what they want and been so validating at echoing that we change over time. 13 mins a day omg you've made that so manageable. OMG, I cant be thankful enough... I have been struggling for so long with this feeling of emptiness that I no longer want to be in my field that I've spent years studying for but now I dont know what else to do, that I dont have the energy to study at uni again, and just cant figure things out. Did so many career tests, looked through entire job lists, searched for rare jobs or whatever to just try to figure out what resonates with me, what is it that I want to do... Thank you so much.. I'll get going with this exercise.. Once again, hearty thanks :)
Great comment! 5 months in now, are you making the progress you'd expected yourself to make?
have a great day
Your intended career may not be giving you lots of money from the onset,
But if you focus fully on it relentlessly, you will get absolutely everything from it; money, impact, fulfillment, satisfaction and mind-blowing connections with people who will value your career path🔥
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
Love this comment!
Thank you❤
Well. I think most researchers disagree wiyh this, sadly
@@paulaestevez4483 doesn't matter what researchers say. It only matters what you say and what happens.
Currently lost with what I really want to do in life, glad that this video came out. Trying to get into content creation but its scary
You've got it! As cliché as it sounds, you just have to start. It will always be scary, but that doesn't mean you can't try. I just recently star,ted and I'm so happy I did. Best of luck. Sounds like you have the perfect resolution for the new year.
Same. I'm lost too. 💀
@@christhornhamThis is a mistake in your thought process, "Perfect resolution for the new year" people shouldn't be waiting for January 1st to start something, for example, it's the end of September now, Start now? Why wait for the new year? If you start now you'll be 3 months ahead of where you would be if you started on 1st of January.
@@Exidose I made this comment when it was the New Year. I didn't say people should wait until the New Year to make a positive change. Instead, I was referencing the fact that it was the New Year when I made the comment. I see how this may be confusing if you read the comment today without looking at the date it was posted.
Exactly where I am right now! I'm thinking of leaving my current job of 5 years and start doing content creation as I enjoy creating. But I think I'm feeling stuck because I don't have the confidence to😢
Tip 1: think about the tasks that you would be doing on a day-to-day basis rather than the title. A lot of your happiness is governed by your day-to-day.
Tip 2: what would ME+ be doing basically a more Indepth explanation of tip 1.what kind of tasks is your "me+ doing" on a day-to-day basis?
Tip 3: Journal your time and what you're doing. Similar to how a personal trainer audits their diet and what they eat do the same thing with your day this also emphasizes tip 2 by putting a + or - sign next to activities that you enjoyed or didn't enjoy
Tip 4: 13 minutes a day = 90 minutes a week towards building in a skill that is useful/in your future that your me+ version needs
Tip 5: You don't need to go back to university. I agree with this one forsure because you can get education online anywhere now.
Tip 6: its okay to change ur mind completely. The illusion that as u get older the harder it is to change is NOT true..people underestimate their ability to change as they get older way too much
Tip 7: Draw it out look at all the things you enjoy and find overlap
So true, so important to remember that happiness comes from your everyday and that's what you need to focus on. Also so important to look at the tasks that you want to do to make the decision completely agree. Embracing change is another important one. Great video!
Ali, you may not be a practicing physician, but you are bringing healing, health, and hope into many people's lives. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
RUclips recommended me this video a few times already and I’ll admit that I never watched it because it seemed like one of those shallow, if-you-can-dream-it-you-can-do-it, fairytale self-help videos. I decided to watch it and was gladly surprised. It was a simple and to the point video, with actual tips and counsel. Thanks for proving me wrong 😅
Thank you so much. Too many videos I watched generalized and fantasized the whole process of figuring out my goal career but this has really cleared it up for me.
To all those thinking about how you want it to go take it like I did. When you workout, you have a dream body or dream strength and you’ll do all you need to do to get there and avoid what keeps you from there.
You may not see the results now but there's signs and as long as you're intentional in going towards your interest you’ll reap what you sow.
Your future's only in two beings' hands, God first then yourself. Be intentional, work hard and whatever you can't control, God will.❤
Note to self. Thank you 🫶🏾
my dad had me think about why my favorite jobs have been my favorite jobs. i realized that i enjoy a team effort, and being able to look at my peers after a hard day’s work and be like: yes, we did that! i enjoy the feeling of accomplishing a goal at the end of each day. i’ve learned i would kind of like being able to visibly see the work that i have done. i’ve learned that project- based tasks are really fun for me. this is all stuff that was the complete opposite of the plan i formulated in high school. i’m so glad i took a few years off to work different jobs and have experiences in different types of work. now that i know what kind of work i enjoy, and have a passion that relates to it, i’m ready to go back to school. all this to say, take some time off of school or slow it down a bit. spend some time in different jobs and learn the type of work you like, then find a career that ties that together with one of your passions.
Very well said 🎉
I really needed this! I went to college and had no idea what I wanted to major in. I changed my major a few times and ended up sticking with communications because it was versatile. Jobs I was interested in at that time were journalism and social media marketing. I ended up doing internships for both and ended up not really enjoying those certain career paths. After graduating I felt lost and was thinking a lot about jobs that interest me and I would research about them to see if they were jobs that I would actually enjoy doing. Most of the time I would search up videos on RUclips like “day in the life as (job title)” and would see the tasks that they would do and if I would be happy doing them. Right now I’m at the point where I’m really lost and have no idea what I want to do. Every time I try to imagine myself in a career, my mind would just go blank. I’m going to try out these tips and hopefully it can lead me to something as I still have hope! ☺️
Lollll I am considering going to school for "Digital Arts" as well, encompassing writing graphic design and web design. Seems like it could be liberating creatively and perhaps lucrative. But I have no idea if I will actually want to do it?! I've dropped out of college 3 or 4 times. 28 now. I know what my dream job is. But it costs money to get there and also, don't even know what type of mundane job I can get to support that let alone one that pays enough to support myself anyway whilst providing enough mental stability and engagement
@@McMilesE that seems like a great career path! What I did when I was thinking of careers that required me to go back to school was I always researched what the major offers, what type of jobs you can get out of the major, what are the tasks that you would e doing for those jobs, how much is the salary for those jobs, and is there a growth in jobs. Most of the time I would also look at Indeed and LinkedIn and search for the jobs related to the major and see the job postings. Going back to school is a lot of money and time so I would research everything I can possible. If it is something that you feel in your heart that you want to do and can imagine yourself doing a particular job then maybe you should consider going to school. ☺️
Even if you find the career for you
Good luck getting hired
@@McMilesE where are u from?
Hey, your comment is captivating. It's been a month tho, have you been able to make any positive changes or still feeling stuck?
Have an amazing day.
This so true! Working in healthcare, you just thought it is as easy as treating patients. But u need to answer loads of phone calls, customer service, be on your feet in the entire shift, too little breaks, too many running/walking around, the lists goes on. These tasks are not mentioned when i was in school yet this is the tasks you are doing every single day which makes me re-think of my career choices. Do i really like this?
Coz back when i was a kid, i like to play pretend to be working in an office not a play-pretend in a hospital. Maybe office task is my forte? Coz office task is what i enjoyed back when i play pretend?
Knowing what day to day tasks you enjoy is huge, as is knowing what skills they require, what it takes to acquire them, and if you already have some!
Attention to detail is a big one for me and I love pattern recognition and finding small quirks or oversights (such as the person entering the far left of frame at 5:04 :P)
I resonate with the lessons from this book more than Cal Newport theory where he says Don' think too much about your passion infact think about what your job/career can take you (e.g. better life style, future security etc).
But Grace Lordan emphasizes more around the actual Tasks of the job itself.
I agree more with her theory.
Thanks
Changing your mind is important as no one knows everything and certainty is really that we all will die.
I do agree that we should always think of the tasks that we enjoy to understand what our dream job is. But the thing is sometimes you thought you would be doing this if you were in this career, but it turns out that the things that you do are so different from what you envisioned. 😢
Boy do I feel you..
I chose my major as mechanical engineering thinking I would get to design all sorts of mechanisms and work with all sorts of new machines everyday. I do get to explore new mechanisms now and then but not nearly as much as I would have wanted to ..
Agreed, got into education because I loved the kids and something new everyday. Had NO idea I’d mostly be dealing with incompetent admin, disrespect from kids and parents, for no pay (I did know that part from the start though…)
@@clairecool7960are you still in education?
@@rinacco3206 yes, but actively taking steps to get out
I wish school would teach this rather than push for us to attend college for the sake of it.
Right
exactly dude. i’m 17 years old and school has killed my dreams of anything i have ever wanted be. they don’t teach the important skills in life like how to find careers you like
@@decker467nmpI am sorry to hear that mate, I feel that
@@lesterlin1424 it’s rough trying to even find part time jobs in this job market right now too
I'm done in college but I landed on a job as a contractual illustrator even my course is education major in technology and livelihood education since fine arts is not available here in my province. I'm still grateful. Atleast I'm not jobless anymore.
I come from an “engineer, lawyer or doctor” family/country. I have a lot of “that’s a nice hobby, not a job“ interests and very few career paths that are actually feasible. I just wish my talents aligned into something that pays enough to live alone without financial worries.
Love the part about changing your mind! I feel like it takes more integrity to say I was wrong, let’s do this differently, than being stubborn to stick to something that’s not working. Great video.
In Personal MBA book the author also notes that you don’t have to get an MBA degree in university to become successful in your business, most of what is taught there, can actually be learned by reading books.
And also the interview with professor Lordan seems so interesting.
That should be common sense.
You'll learn more from doing actual business than any classroom
The way I figured out from talking to other people how to decide what career and occupation you want is to get a general education in college to get an idea of where your best knowledge area is, know your abilities, and skills and obviously it should be based off your desires, passions, interests, values, and what's important to you. If you search your community through your local library or local colleges you can find resources to help that like aptitude tests and career exploration to get a description of each job and to learn other things about. Then you pick a college based on its credentials and how they meet your needs if they do and how their reputation is and get a basic knowledge of that school and what they offer. It's good to make a resume with not just job experience but any possible volunteering, your interests, skills, abilities, and hobbies and a description of yourself. Its also good to prepare for interviews by knowing questions they might ask.
imagine this feeling that u know that u doing something in the best possible way. U are brilliant Ali, fr u change mindset, such an inspiration for me
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
Much needed video, there's no channel like Ali's, the topics of these videos are so useful and I don't see any other creator giving such actionable advice
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
Literally ❤
I’m 24 years old I studied medicine since I was 17 in university I did very well but did not enjoy it at all.
When I wanted to leave and study engineering because I enjoy it and find I could help a lot more people that way but I got very negative feedback on my thoughts so I stuck in medicine. I have never regretted anything in my life than this decision.
Then change now. Even if you have to do it a class at a time. Change sooner than later. It’s only your life.
Ali is the only RUclipsr I have to watch on 075 speed lol. Everyone else I watch on 1.25x.
That being said Ali I LOVE your stuff! You pack so much good information into 10-15 minute videos and it's majorly appreciated. You're also inspiring me to start my own RUclips channel.
I had to check the playback speed, too. Also, scroll lower so hands are out view.
I just do something I'm good at so I can do it quickly and work less than 8 hrs a day from home. I love that I get paid well for doing something so low effort for me. I have no passion for anything in a "devote your life to it" sort of way, and I don't think everyone has to have that. I like to do tons of different things in short bursts.
Can I ask what you do?
Thank you for this video. I have been a veterinarian for 12 years. I had niggling from the beginning that it wasn’t what I want to do for the rest of my life. Those nigglings got louder and louder in the years. I have reached an impasse and now looking at what careers are out there that would be my home. I’m just at the beginning… thank you for showing me that it can be done!
I like the idea of thinking big as this can feel scary at first, breaking it down and taking small steps based on being informed because it is filling in the gaps in our knowledge that allows us to make better career decisions, thanks for sharing.
This is the first video ive ever seen of yours and wanted to say thank you!! Its not only incredibly helpful but organized in a way i can implement changes 🙏
I love everything aside from the point of continuing going to uni.
There are so many hands on boot camps out there that can give you entrepreneurial experience and help you position yourself in the job market. I’m a college opt out.
Age 27, no debt, and with a great paying job. You don’t need to go to school and get in debt.
This is why present education pathways at the moment are actually road blocks instead of being catalysts. It holds you back into institutional thinking instead of actually visualizing, experiencing what it being laid in front of you. Just because the paths of the ones before us have been laid, doesnt mean anyone of us cant move ways.
The institutional way of teaching, learning and experiencing lacks the basic power of an indiviual which is to individuate and have great discernment.
I’m on a “job break” right now and your videos have helped me tremendously. I’m using this time to learn more about myself and the type of career I want. Thank you!
Better have a plan B and C. I know someone who started his job with 16 and loved it, really enjoyed it. But physical labor. Now at 45 his back is so damaged, that he cannot keep doing his dream job. Never thought about doing anything else, that would be tough on anyone.
i was having second thoughts about what i was doing recently. it was not smth that inspired me or what i like to doing. but i paid for education course and and i have to at least try to make it work. but looking in a bigger perspective, i think we all have to step by step create a career that we'll enjoy. thanks for the video. now i have a clearer picture of what i want in future
The tips in this video are good but I think the Japanese author of a book called "yaritai koto no mitsukekata (the method of finding what you really want to do)" has a more systematic and sure way of finding what kind of career you would genuinely love. Basically, you need to understand yourself to find your values, what you are good at (similar to tip 1 in this video, you enjoy doing the tasks you are good at), and what you like. When all these 3 are aligned, which is very similar to Ikigai, then that is the career you would love. The book has many questions to really understand yourself and it has really helped me. Unfortunately the book is in Japanese, but I think the author is in the works of spreading his seminars to other parts of the world.
And the authors name is what,please?
@@mariiv2412 The author is Yagi Jinpei 八木 仁平
What hinges you to finding the work you love is your uniqueness. I think we go off with this perception that the title will make us love the career but it’s opposite the purpose makes you love the career and you have to figure out. How can you purposely give back and show up every day. ❤ I encourage you not to put so much pressure on yourself and just be open to what you can be.
Recently had a epiphany that I was making a career choice based on idealizing the title vs reviewing about how I felt about the day to day reality of the tasks associated with the career choice
Having graduated as a civil engineer, I always wanted to design and help people. I kept applying for jobs as an engineer being an international student in Australia. But after 100s of job interviews and spending thousands of dollars on my cv, networking and improving LinkedIn I am still stuck in a limbo. Sometimes you have the passion, the skills you need to be working and implementing your ideas. But then your conditions and luck are not on your favour. Sometimes it’s just not enough….
i really loved this concept of 90 minutes a week because I wanted to switch to computer science field and for that I hardly study 30 minutes a day and used to think I'm not giving my all guess I have to start complimenting myself for the efforts i'm putting into that career
And what do you do when you have absolutely no idea what you want to do? Where do you start searching ??
Start figuring out what you don't like doing. And I don't mean specific jobs but work situations. For example if you dislike constantly meeting people that you've never seen before, then don't become a medical doctor, sales representative, consultant... That way you can narrow down the choices.
Get some hands on experience in a heap of different fields. And like the other person said you can definitely get rid of what you don’t want to do. Things like high stress jobs, outdoors vs indoors etc.
For example I always knew I would despise working solely in an office and that cuts out a heap of potential jobs for me.
I’m struggling with the same thing. I feel like I need some guided questions or something to help me figure this out 🤦🏽♀️
You keep assuming I can experience enjoyment
To be honest, it feels so frustrating where you don’t know where to start searching, where to find answers. I’ve been through that myself, and in the process I found astrology, I just wanted to find an answer for what career, company or job should I look for. So I studied astrology for several years to find an answer, and I got it. It made total sense to me, and now I’m working on making this career vision happen. I must say that, in this process, it was important to let go the ego part that didn’t want to change some old versions of myself but it’s a process. Finding an answer is just the beginning.
This was actually very insightful. I like how u said its about figuring it out and to be patient, and also I’ve felt the minuses in my schedule a lot, which often frustrated me. The 13 minutes a day seems very manageable, thx!
“The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.” - Robert Kiyosaki
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"A country is judged by the kind of life it gives to the common man. The rich guy lives well anywhere."
- Dinesh D'Souza
Exactly @@eganrabiee627
Hi Ali,
you're a wonderful speaker. Ideas have to be easy to digest and entertaining and you do so like a pro. Thank you.
I'm reading your book "Feel good productivity" and I wouldn't go for such a "magic pill" title if not for your videos (showing that you're a smart person first of all).
i’m stuck with my career path. Never thought that such uncertainty actually ever affect me.😢
Have you found it now?
i love that this video is ~13 minutes. done day1 of me finding myself,
the most productive things i found is stop watching productive videos instead stay away from consumption and self reflect and work on what you want. Tell me id I am wrong
- Tip 1: Task Over Title (0:42)
- Tip 2: Visualize Your Me Plus (2:22)
- Tip 3: Audit Your Time (4:13)
- Tip 4: 13 Minutes a Day (5:27)
- Tip 5: No Need for University (7:05)
- Tip 6: Embrace U-Turns (8:04)
- Tip 7: The Grid Search Mindset (10:21)
Tysm !! I was looking for this type of comment
Ali, please come to Australia to speak. i would pay to see you speak you are such an inspirational person! I am going to buy this book my professor Grace Lordan so thank you for bringing this to light.
Work out the life you want and reverse engineer it from there… every career has its problems, just need to work out which ones you can live with
Thank you! You have absolutely confirmed what I interpreted to have been functional echolalia in myself. In particular the use of quotes to express an exact feeling/thought to describe the situation.
I met my husband almost 10 years ago at a party and we were sitting next to each other, the only ones at the table not engaged in conversation. I addressed the awkwardness by quoting Ralph Wiggum “so… do you like stuff?” To which he replied “my cat’s breath smells like cat food” 😍
I hadn’t heard of scripting before this video, but funnily enough I used this on our first date as was so nervous I wouldn’t have anything to say so had made am mental list of conversation topics to pull from if needed 🙈
Most times strategies works when well applied, In the past I use to have serious phobia for trade because I don't want to lose all my money but I'm very profitable and it has become my best passive income from the first time I bought my house through trade and not salary
Trading without any guide is so risky you need to get a good mentor like willem strategy to guide your trades
he's mostly on Telegrams, using the user name
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9:59 this, this is what i want to hear, so that I know I'm not the only one who is not afraid to say I am wrong to my members
Definitely needed to hear this this morning. Thank you!!
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
This is so true about the tasks. I got into one job lately and I absolutely hate the tasks! I will be thinking of what I want to be “doing ” in my next job and I hope I can find out SOON!
13 minute rule explained in 12:40 seconds u got my attention!
this video was of 13 minutes of investing in myself, thank you :) Even though i fee l like i will be going into a field i am already so passionate about, i was still able to pocket so many of the ideas in this video to protect myself in the future.
I actually do like my work. Not saying i"d rather work than be with family or friends or just chill. But work being mandatory, at least I don't hate what i do. I basically do something I find meaningful and enjoyable. And, as this video mentions, I like the tasks!
Can you please say what what your career is?
what do u do
I'm an English language teacher in Mexico. I never had any dream career while growing up and here I am, just enjoying what I do but I don't know if it's really my passion or if I will keep doing this forever until I finally retire.
To anyone watching: Do the 90 minute in one or two chunks a week, not actually 13 minutes a day. Task switching costs time and energy. Also, there's less chance that you miss that "daily" tasks on weekends or due to the unpredictability of life. You can easily reschedule a 45minute chunk, but you probably won't with a 13minute task.
Super good point
Wrong. Learning needs lots of correctly spaced repetition first and foremost. So even if it takes you more time, it's worth it, because thanks to the Ebbinghaussche learning curve, you'll remember better what you have learned by revisiting the content in a well spaced out time (repeating all in one day or 1 week apart is NOT effective, at least not as effective as revisiting content every day/ after 24h) and thus your time spent will be more effective. Of course more learning time than just 13 min would be better, but in the end just from a learning effectiveness point, learning in such small junks daily is WAY ahead of learning in one or fewer long sitting(s) per week.
@@SandraSuesser That might be all true (though I imagine there might be differences depending on if the material is *new* or if I'm revisiting). But it's not my point. For a busy person like me, a new daily task of 13 minutes might be dropped more often than not. Also, thinks to task switching, I might either be only learning for actual 3-5 minutes or it will take additional time out of the next task or I just need another break to support task switching.
Considering your information, it might be useful to make one or two bigger chunks per week (maybe on the weekend) and then revisit the learned material from those chunks in small 10 minutes snacks where you just revisit and not add *new* information?
15 minutes how do you even get into the code base, this is so far fetched, unrealistic.
@@SandraSuesser To learn something deep you have to get into the context, that takes time. So 13 minutes might not even result in any finished result. So incomplete, imagine having 7 those 13 minutes sittings and not making any result. Also not effective, flow state is achieved in 15-45 minutes.
Career Development has been researching and working with these ideas for many years. She's done a great job incorporating some of the most effective self efficacy building strategies in one place- certainly for a general western context. Will have to check it out.
2:55 This made me realize my potential in life, to become a professional pen spinner
this video was about as helpful as my therapist who told me that i should just give up, and genuinely meant it .
Love the quote "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future." 11:18 We need to remind ourselves that it is ok to take risks, try new things, and still fall short! Even if you fall short in the goal you initially envisioned, you will learn something else about yourself, in pursuit of that goal! We need to trust ourselves that the lessons we learn in life will allow us to connect the dots eventually! Thank you @aliabdaal
Honestly after being MISERABLE at my first 3 professional jobs I just gave up for a while. Transitioned into gigs to survive and make money until I take the plunge again. The pandemic didn't help when it took away all options for life and relationship-building outside of work, leaving only the corporate top-secret dungeon where I would slowly wither away before I left for another company. The other company was the complete opposite - parties, extraversion, life. But that was too much for me, and I hated the actual content of the work.
I see why this guy has 5 million subscribers. Great content.
Lawyer here (who just quit and looking to focus on what I enjoy). Young waitress who wants to be lawyer asked for my advice. I said, create a 24 hour period you look forward to. Go work at a firm and see you look forward to each 24-hour block. If you don't, then do something else. Making more money doing something you don't enjoy can't buy back the time lost to doing things that you don't enjoy plus the time lost stressing over it even when you're not doing it. It's crazy that we don't spend all spend a year rotating through different career fields to see what it's actually like on a day-to-day basis.
As a high school counselor, I believe this emphasis on 'finding your passion' is oftentimes oversimplified. Before he/she can 'find their passion," the average individual has to first deal with a lot of psychological baggage/attitudes that unconsciously hold back the individual - something that's beyond the time & resource constraints that most people are willing to put in. Additionally, it seems that these 'passions' (for most people) seem to start as any structured activity the individual is FORCED to do that 'becomes habit,' that they then interpret as 'them being good at it.' This is the main part - if you're good at something, you enjoy doing it, and a passion develops. You don't "find your passion." You develop it.
You have to make big decisions about your career before you are 18, yet chances you have no idea what people do on day to day. It was even worse 10-20 years ago, but even now most people who "give you advice" parents, teachers, etc have very little knowledge about what doctor or a trader does every day.
I love how you fully utilized this opportunity to flex your pen-flipping skills 😂😂
I don’t dream of labor. That’s my problem. My me+ isn’t working.
I think that is precisely why these tips are so helpful. Admitting you don't enjoy labor is so relatable to me. However, we really need food and shelter that hopefully reduces mental/physical and financial misery. This video gives some tools to define in which jobs you would be less likely to feel awful and drained, after all, most of us can't afford to not work, so we might as well be strategic about it, with our peace and well-being as priority.
At least, that's my take on it. If you can, look into silence ambition and also, contemplate what would be the best case scenario if you had no other choice to work in order to survive and maintain your sanity/health. You don't necessarily need to love whatever you choose, just try to think about options that on the long run don't leave you soulless or isn't that much of a burden to complete. I'm currently quitting a civil engineering path, because after some years on the field, I realized the price to pay to maintain it: my peace, health, time with family and for my personal interests.
I'm currently trying out teaching preschool, teaching English as second language, closet organization/declutter, selling homemade goods and programming, all from zero and part-time, depending on what is on demand. Even tho it could sound a bit overwhelming and messy, I get to somehow control my time and stress better, I have "seasons" and this dynamic keeps me motivated, avoiding mental and physical stagnation. The only "sacrifice" is the luxuries I'm "missing" and perhaps the social status, but I'm at peace.
I truly hope you find your answers and have a peaceful life or hope you win the lottery and get to afford that "no labor" freedom you mentioned.
The concept of Career Capital is life changing.
Great video, Ali! Those pen (highlighter) spins really add to the B-rolls 😂 In all seriousness, I often think I get trapped in the Burmuda social media triangle, but your videos add so much value to my life. ++
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
Sir 😂 I suffer from attention disorder, the pen flip tricks you do is sooo awesome to look at haha I heard some parts you said but most importantly I practiced the pen trick too haha
This is one of the most practical videos I've watched on career development. Thank you Ali for your great content.
I feel like I've come back to this Video about 1000 times so it's fitting that I get the satisfaction of turning this 999 comments into 1000 😌 Thanks Ali for this quality content!
It is interesting how powerful is building an "imaginary great you" works on people. I think that the "Me+" concept looks like the concept mentioned in The Alter Ego Effect book. But I can not confirm that because I am still reading it.
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
An arrow needs to be pulled back in order to fly forward - That's the picture I kept having in mind when I went back to university completing a different degree I had been resistant to during my young adulthood. I was married already, 10+ years older than my fellow students and struggling not to feel like a complete loser. Now, 8 years later, I'm glad I had the courage to take that u-turn.
Thank Ali, your videos have helped me countless time, and always have helped me to find the direction to go...
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
This was great, thank you! I think I’ve finally found what I’m good at, role wise, but know that the industry I’ve been in for the last 10 years is not the right fit.
Great and inspiring conversation. Looking forward to checking out the full podcast on Deep Dive 👏🏽
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ok im confused how the fuck was this video released 39 minutes go but this comment is 3 hours old
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Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
i love your channel and this is the only channel that i watch without going 2X :) love the speed and content
Funny I came across your video today. What you talk about is exactly what I am naturally doing at the moment and what I will keep on doing. :) keep up the good work! Sending love from Belgium.
Loved the video! I found it so inspiring to start auditing my time and this also made me understand the importance of consistency paired with long term vision. Btw I make videos to help this upcoming generation learn and develop fundamental and life changing wisdom! Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance
The career I love to do is to sing and entertain. I’m happy doing them. :)