6 Ways to Find the Answer to “What Should I Do With My Life?”

Unlike so many other questions you have about your career, this one is not quite as easy to Google. The good news is, you’re not alone - in fact, I’ll guarantee that everyone has thought about their career path, and finding their passion. And luckily, many of them are willing to share their advice.

1) .................. Meet or call at least 50 people. They can be your friends, relatives, friends of friends. Call them up, schedule a meeting, see them and interact with them on what they are doing. Don’t expect anything, don’t ask them to find you a job, and don’t ask them to give you a job. Just have a normal conversation.

Gaurav Munjal

2) .................. Walk into your local bookshop and go straight to the autobiography section. Buy three books from across different industries, societies, and cultures. Focus on biographies that document great and successful people’s early lives, before they were great. Read them before bed. Wake up in the morning and write down 10 things you could do differently that day. Do some of them. Do this the next day. And then do it again.

David Ball

3) .................. Expect that it is going to take a while with several so-called “life crises” to figure it out. For most people it’s a long and often unfinished journey.

Andrei Palskoi

4) .................. Try new things and widen your horizons. Try something you’ve always wanted to but never got around to, something that scares you, something that is very different from what you normally do.

Can Sar

5) .................. Most of us fail in our first attempt. We keep failing and learning and growing. The point to be noted is that this is the time to learn, experiment, grow, and fail without any substantial damage.

Anuj Kumar

6) .................. Enjoy the the soul-searching, the loves lost, the time wasted. All of it will add up to a complex and very unique “you.” The more you appreciate right now, the more the future will become a fantastic reality. Don’t pressure yourself to be in the future.

James Altucher