There is so much fuss around, “Do what you are passionate about”.
But for the vast majority of people finding what their passion is isn’t as simple as finding what’s the next showtime for their favourite movie!
These 3 Questions helped me figure myself out.
Since then I’ve left my full-time job and created 2 internet companies.
Here are the 3 Questions:
1) What do your friends complain about that you find effortless?
Examples for me:
- Self-control: I don’t find it hard to stop myself from binging on Netflix. I can stop an episode mid-way and come back next day to finish it.
- Unaffected by peer pressure: I don’t feel FOMO (fear of missing out), so I can stay away from doing what everyone else is doing.
- Cooking: I spend hours trying to make the dish taste as I want it to, even when I (like all my friends) used to have a busy job schedule.
2) What do your friends say you are great at?
Examples for me:
- Learning any new skill in an accelerated fashion (here’s the list of all the skills I’ve learnt so far).
- Motivating people to achieve what they are struggling with: Catching their excuses and shifting their mindset. More often than not, we are struggling because of the invisible scripts we have conjured up in our heads about why certain things can’t be done.
3) What do you do on Saturdays and Sundays when at home?
Examples for me:
- Watching some documentary and then going to Wikipedia to read more about that, only to find out more complimentary information, and then reading about that. 3 hours later finding myself deep into the rabbit hole with 25 tabs open.
- Looking for sports meetup groups – cricket, squash, badminton, running, ultimate frisbee or anything that I’m interested in on that day.
These examples might seem unconnected to you at first. But once you do this exercise of answering these 3 Questions for yourself, you will start seeing the patterns that will help you crack the code of self-awareness.
Do share your answers to these questions in the comments below 🙂
