This article will serve as a guide, not because I say so, but because the evidence is enough to prove it.
Start by stopping for a minute and reflect on these questions:
What am I looking for in life? What am I so eagerly pursuing?
If I get up every day at six in the morning, is it because I want to or have to?
Those are profound questions, but I intend to disrupt your thoughts and make you think; your life’s direction is the one you want or should follow just because you have no other option.
Society has educated us, from what I have seen since the years that I have lived, that there is a method or guide to be successful in life. Based on the results from the past, it begins with studying and going to college, graduating, and enjoying the benefits that education gives us.
There is nothing wrong with that, but that only worked for so long.
We do not realize that, just as the wide pants of the seventies went out of fashion, the comprehensive methods of education imposed on us to achieve success in life—Doesn’t work anymore.
The past had its challenges, and we solved them with what we had at our disposal. But times have changed, tools have been updated, and thus our way of achieving success in the present times.
As calculators evolved, so did our way of calculating our chances of success.
All the rules and methods have been tested, stretched, and broken in these present times, just as scientists do so many tests to discover a new invention that will make our lives easier, more comfortable, or healthier.
Fast forward to the new millennium; we stopped seeing our dog as our best friend, and we fell in love with the iPhone. When we get up, we first reach out and see our phone screen, not our wives or our dog licking at our face.
Hey, with every groundbreaking invention comes another addiction. Every sword has a double edge, for better or worse.
But these innovations, and I think it all started from the smartphone, revolutionized the way we seek success in life.
The compass of this article:
Although we have the most advanced technologies at our disposal, the reasonable judgment of the human being is necessary to use it for our benefit and overall success.
Many ways have been devised to achieve success today, from the dawn of email, through the content creation revolution, to the newsletter.
All you need to do is find direction for your innate talents.
Everything is learnable, but not all of us have the talent to fill our heads with so many skills. We are not smartphones, but we have artificial intelligence at our disposal.
We only have to learn to adapt our skills and talents to the available tools.
It is true that when we set out to learn something, we are capable of understanding it—but knowing a little about everything gives us an advantage instead of being a master of a single skill.
Learning more grammar has made me a better writer. The writing led me to build my website following the directions of professionals. Now I run my website, a space on Quora and Medium, and I work on my Newsletter in Substack. Everything has been through learning a chain of skills based on the extent of my talents.
Talents transformed into powerful abilities create a ripple effect, whose benefits expand to other areas of your life and, over time, improve it as a whole.
Discover what you are easily good at and what you know how to do that others find difficult. That will be the first compass needle that will guide you.
So, define your talents; they will be the compass that will guide you to success.
Thanks for reading.
TOGETHER WE CAN LEARN BETTER.
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