The Best Way To Succeed Faster

You’re never going to master something unless you understand this: We learn much better when we are emotionally engaged, when we want to learn, when we are motivated, when we feel the need to learn. 

 If you go into law because your parents pushed you into it, or because it seems lucrative, but you aren’t personally excited by it, you’re going to start tuning out. You aren’t going to learn very fast. You’re going to burn out. You’ll never become a master. You’ll never be able to put in the 10 years or more of studying something unless you really are excited about it. There must be a personal commitment to it.

The Process to Find Your Subject of Mastery
 
Everybody has a different process, a different journey. Some people knew clearly what it was when they were young. I met a woman who interviewed me. She knew that she wanted to be a writer when she was a young girl and then she got into law and it was a dead end and she hated it. She finally figured it out, at the age of 31, that she had to go back to what she really loved.

The Next Step
 
If you’re 22 and about to enter the career world, it’s usually a matter of “I like this field, the sciences” or “I like sports” or whatever. A general category of things that you’re going to pursue. For me, it was writing. 
 
But What If You Are Older?
 
My father worked at the same company for 40 years. They were loyal to him, and he was loyal to them. It’s not that long ago that a world existed where people would work at one place and things were sort of taken care of. 

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