Jason Feifer

Talking with Jason Pfeiffer, editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine.

I really like this quote, one of your latest articles.

When you narrow your path, you limit your chances of finding what will make you happiest.

I want you to expound upon that a bit, if you don't mind, for everybody listening.

The very first time that I noticed people do this was years and years ago when I was still mostly identifying as just a kind of pure magazine guy, journalist.

And I would be invited to come speak in journalism classes as I talked to these college kids who all aspire to work in magazines.

And they would inevitably, every class, one or two kids would raise their hand and they would say something along the lines of, my goal is to work at Entertainment Weekly.

What do you think I should do to get to Entertainment Weekly?

I just think that this is a terrible way to think.

This is just an awful way to think because fine, you have a goal of working at a place.

That's good.

Having a goal is great.

Having some direction to move in simply so that you can start moving is wonderful because we got to move somewhere.

We got to go somewhere.

but do not limit every decision that you make based on an ultimate goal because you don't know if that goal is actually going to be any good.

You could get to Entertainment Weekly and it could suck.

And I will tell you something.

I have so many friends who aspire to work at certain places and they got there and it was not at all what they expected.

You cannot limit yourself like that.

When you limit your options along the way,