Jason Feifer

All you are doing is turning down all these amazing new opportunities to learn, to grow, to discover a path that you didn't know was available.

One of the reasons that those kids are saying, I would like to work at Entertainment Weekly is because they only know of a certain number of outcomes for their career.

They're only aware of a few.

And I'm going to hazard to guess that

that although a small number of them may have landed at their dream job that they aspire to do, the vast, vast majority of them, and I include myself in this, ended up somewhere that they could not have possibly predicted and that, frankly, they may not have even been aware of.

When I started my career, I'd never heard of Entrepreneur Magazine.

What the hell is that?

But eventually, because I made enough choices financially,

throughout my career, choices that were based not on one ultimate goal, but rather of seeing something and saying, I wonder what's over there.

Maybe there's something that I can learn.

I got to a place where I had the necessary skills to take over a magazine called Entrepreneur and then see what else was available to me because of it.

Speaking, book writing, podcasting, going on TV, all this stuff.

This is not stuff that I ever thought that I was going to do.

It would not have been possible unless I took those unexpected paths.

And that's what we all need to do.

We cannot close ourselves off to those.

That's where the real opportunity is.

I like that a lot.

And there's a couple terms I use.

There's unintended consequences in self-limiting behavior.