Jason Feifer

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · "I Have Too Many Ideas and Analysis Paralysis. Help!" · 26 Dec 2024 podcast

libertarian or not everyone can agree like we're better when we have a government full of people who want to do good work right so that would be you if you so choose right and then i guess i was thinking maybe of learning a skill trade like iron working there's a lot of jobs that are

But wait, you just said the goal of having my own farm. Is everything that you're doing leading to that? Because you're telling me contradictory things, and I get it because this question of yours is tied up in so many other things. It's tied up in your past, in your present, in your future.

but I just want to point out to you the contradictions of one telling me you'd be open to reskilling as an iron worker. And then also my goal is to have my own farm. You're probably not going to have your own farm as an iron worker. Maybe you can, but that would be a unique farm. So Pick these things apart for me. What is the most important? What's not? Is having your own farm a fixed thing?

That's what we're working towards? Or is that just an idea, one of many?

Stick around, Help Wanted will be right back.

Welcome back to Help Wanted. Let's get to it. Okay, it feels like the foundational decision that needs to be made before anything else is... Do you quit farming or anything like farming? Do you quit being the kind of person who utilizes the skills that you have developed to work on a farm or anything that resembles farming? Is that the first question that you need to face?

where my focus is you know but you don't just want to work outside is the thing because I call you back to autonomy feeling challenged feeling fully utilized and finding meaning at work right because I'm already working outside yeah so obviously that's not it yeah yeah So that's not it.

And spending years and years or whatever it takes to master ironworking and then working on buildings in the city, I mean, that doesn't sound to me at all like it's going to fulfill these really core things that you laid out before. If you're working with an ironworking team on a building, you don't have a whole lot of autonomy. You can't change the structure of the building.

You're probably not even going to feel all that challenge, to be honest with you, because once you reach a certain level of mastery, you're going to be repeating that skill instead of constantly reinventing something. You may feel fully utilized, or you may not, because what would be nagging at you is going to be all this time that you spent learning farming that is not being utilized at all.

And you may or may not find meaning. Or you may tell me that in the way that working for the government bothers you, that also just building this next bank building is also not going to be incredibly meaningful for you. I think that it's helpful to pick some things that you can stay with for a little bit.

and then figure out if there's a way to achieve greater happiness inside of them before saying, and I think it's great that you are willing to say, I'm open to anything. But the problem with saying that I'm open to anything is that you're giving yourself infinite directions to go in, which means that you're not going to do any of them. So let's narrow. So the reason why I asked you

Is it time to quit farming? Which I know quit is a very, is like a harsh word there, but was because I wanted to see like what you're willing to utilize as the starting point of a series of decisions. And your answer was you're willing to consider leaving it.

Right. Okay. That's interesting. But What you didn't say is, yes, I have to. So let's start with this. I'm not telling you what to do, but for the purposes of the thought experiment, you will stay in farming unless it turns out to be a really bad decision. You will stay. Next, you want to do something with this skill set that you have in the geographic area that you live in.

Next, what are those jobs? And we need to start looking at those. The forestry one is great. You're talking to them about that. You've identified something that you might not like about it, but there are going to be other things that you do. And maybe you could take that job and autonomy goes up to seven and fully utilized goes from a four to five to a six or seven. And that's progress.

So tell me now that I have made some decisions for you, which you can dispose of at any time, but tell me other things that you could do that you haven't done yet or people to talk to that you haven't talked to yet.

You need to start experimenting. And I would start with... what feel like pretty reasoned experiments, like incremental experiments, right? Testing out the watercress farm, which also is not a thing I've ever heard of, is a much smaller experiment than reskilling as an iron worker. And the reason I'm using the word experiment is because experimentation is a liberating concept, or it should be.

Because one of the great things that drives analysis paralysis that you've been experiencing as you're sitting here looking down infinite highways in infinite directions is is that every decision that you're considering feels like some kind of large commitment, or it feels like a major shift, or it feels like it's going to set your path in some totally different direction.

Because you don't know which one to commit to, you feel like you don't know which direction to go in at all. So what happens if you just treat it like an experiment? What experiments can you run that don't require years of new work, To see if you can find situations that move you a little closer to that goal. And maybe taking a forestry job and saying, you know what?

I'm going to give this six months. I'm going to see if I feel better about it. Maybe even... Set a goal and see if in six months you have achieved it. Here could be a goal. I've given you these four things that you want. Autonomy, feeling challenged, feeling fully utilized, and finding meaning. And you have given numbers to these things for your current situation.

Take the forestry job six months later, fill out that chart, one to 10. Did everything move up at least one or two notches? If so, I would say good experiment, right? Like good experiment. If they moved down two notches, then the experiment was a failure and it's time to do something else. But maybe that was progress.

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