your career is a sculpture. When you’re figuring out what to do with your life, you’re like a sculptor who starts out with a big block of rock. That block of rock is all your possible careers—plumber, pilot, pianist, and everything else. How does a sculptor work? Not by adding things, but by taking things away, until the only thing remaining is what should be there. When you go out into the world, try a job out, and decide it’s not for you, you’re chiseling a piece off of that block. If you do that enough times, you’re left with all the things you do like and are good at. That’s your
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