How To Find Your Passion

shadywix (-1)(1)in #passion • 6 years ago

Hello everyone, I am Shady here and you guys are welcome to my steemit channel. I have been interviewing some students of some high schools and even colleges in here New York city. One of the most common questions I received is: I do not know what I want to do in life, how can I find my passion and that is a pretty important question. So in today's blog, I will explain you exactly how to do that.

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Now before I start I wanted to clarify something many of us believe there is one thing out there that may be our passion that is predetermined when we are born and that all we have to do is find it but that is not how the truth of things works is that there are probably many many things that could potentially be our passion in It is actually possible to have more than one passion if you take a look at many successful people you will discover that this is usually the case for example Tim Ferris He is a well-known author and speaker but did you know that he was also a competitive dancer and investor? There are only two things you need to do to discover one of your passions. The first is that you must change your dopamine source. Dopamine is a chemical released by our brain that motivates us to do things without it would literally starve you even though there is food in front of you the release of dopamine is also accompanied by pleasure the problem today is that dopamine is very easy to get it is cheap and is for everyone sides before we had to do things to get that dopamine and most times it required that man create something you had to build a house you had to create a big piece of pottery you had to go outside and try to cultivate while doing all this you were overflowing with dopamine and you felt good about to the whole process if you follow this path naturally you will become passionate about whatever you have done But nowadays it's a bit different Now we can flood our brain with dopamine without having to make much effort.

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You can surf the internet You can do marathon of your favorite shows You can order amazing meals in front of your house almost instantaneously and methods like this have become the main sources of dopamine for most people now what about the different dopamine sources of today compared to the sources we used to get good these are forms of consumption and the sources we used to use are forms of creation and this is a very important distinction because for something to become your passion it is necessary that it comes from creation if you get the majority of your dopamine from a form of consumption. You know what we call that we call it an addiction you're addicted to watching television you're addicted to smoking cigarettes you're addicted to eating junk food but on the other hand if we get most of our dopamine from a form of creation that's called a passion you are passionate about drawing you are passionate about dancing you are passionate about cultivation.

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So the first most important thing you must do to find your passion is to reverse your consumption valve look less television play less video games eat less junk food when you revert your valve Consumption forces you to obtain dopamine from forms of creation This is crucial to our next step The second thing you must do to find your passion is to simply expose yourself to a variety of different forms of creation to give yourself a chance to get dopamine from these sources instead of consumption forms there is no very fancy trick to find these ways You just have to face the old fashioned things so what I suggest you do after successfully completing the 1st step is to look online a list of hobbies literally go to google and write list of hobbies wikipedia look through the list and if you see something that seems remotely interesting or funny write it and create a list then what you have to do is take this list and ask yourself what hobbie I would like to try first you should try only one of these activities at once because you should give yourself the enough time for you to see if you can turn this hobby into passion or not if you have successfully followed the first step that is to reduce dramatically the amount of dopamine you get from forms of consumption what will happen next should be automatic let's say you choose photography as something that you It might be interesting if you followed the first step correctly.

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Naturally, you will look for information about the photograph. s some videos you will start to fiddle with a cheap camera or your phone and after a while you will know if you really like this hobbie all this is filled by the dopamine that you are no longer obtaining from forms of consumption.
Because now you are getting it from forms of creation and let's say that in the end you are not interested in photography all you have to do is follow the second activity on your list and if that does not work try the third activity and so on and if you continue not being interested in any of the activities on your list the chances indicate that you have not followed the first step correctly you should reduce the amount of dopamine you get from even more consumption forms now I know this sounds too simple but finding a passion is not as difficult as all people believe it is honestly everything What you have to do is reduce the amount of dopamine you get from forms of consumption, it will allow you to explore different forms of creation, talking about this, a place for you to explore a wide variety of hobbies is skillshare.com skillshare has over 700,000 unique videos showing you about hundreds of different topics including topics like photography, drawing, productivity, business and much much more personically.

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