Dr. Angela Duckworth
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All those little kids playing piano and violin, like how many of them are actually interested in it?
It's true.
Very few, right?
It's true.
It's really foolish.
I want to say something really provocative.
I think maybe instead of asking yourself another question, you should just go and do something, right?
Like my Pilates teacher would say like, don't think it, just do it.
Don't think it, just do it.
Stop writing in your journal.
Stop asking yourself questions.
Like literally go out and do something.
You know, interests are like food.
You got to taste it to know whether you like it or not.
And that to me is the number one mistake I see people making.
They
Like, think about it.
And they think about it, and then they want to talk to their friends about it.
Okay, there's a limited amount of good that that does.
But one of the things about interests is they really do emerge from experience.