Like it or not, AI is here. Yet some places, like schools Education are still living in the world of the past. For schools, it feels like they’re still in the industrial era, training us for repetitive work with a bit updated manuals, but the same structure still.
Yet we live in an era beyond these things. It’s easier than it’s ever been to learn something new, re-orient, and whilst that may cause more issues deciding what to do, it also means that hard skills are not as required anymore, if at all, for tasks, the kind of people who performs the task matters more.
Going further, interviews ask about your experience but in this amazing world you can literally check out 10 projects you could do right now that would advance you readily.
You do, however, need to choose what it is you’re doing. You need to pick a decision.
Ikigai The Japanese Art of Happiness is the closest thing to help reflect on that, but I think in practice it needs to be done with a pen and paper; with a friend and a drink; with an older person and their experience; between yourself and your dreams.
I like smelling what people really care about. The stuff they can talk about all day.. Please talk to me about it, show me that passion. Noticing how little you know about yourself can be daunting, but if you travel through that Forest of knowledge you’ll arrive on the other side wiser and more confident than ever.