Jodi Kantor

They could have not bet on themselves enough.

But they did.

And it made all the difference for me dropping out of law school, a decision basically nobody else understood.

It was the best decision I ever made.

And I want to give more people the confidence to take it.

To take on risk, I mean, this is such a hard environment in which to take on risk because everybody's craving stability.

The problem is that if you don't take on risk, you don't get anywhere in business, in life.

So here's the clue.

There are more in the book, but here's like the clue I want to leave with anybody who's listening.

I want you to listen to your positive emotions.

And what I mean by that is...

There are a lot of negative emotions right now.

Like we're all kind of freaking out, right?

And especially anybody looking for a job, looking for a career, there is going to be a ton of anxiety and discouragement and waking up at three in the morning and all the bad things.

The problem with listening to negative emotions is that they can be deceptive.

We've all been through situations where we were panicking about something and then it turned out fine.

And like, ultimately, you don't want to lead a life guided by jitters.

I think positive emotions are more accurate, reliable.

guides.

I think you will know that feeling when you, in some professional realm, when you're starting, you feel a ping, you feel an attraction, you feel a pull.