Exercise 1. Return children's interest
Do you know how a genius differs from an ordinary person? A genius asserts his right to do what he loves. This usually happens at a very young age.
Answer the question of what you loved doing in childhood. Even before your parents began to cram into you the setting that “drawing on bread does not work” or “dancing is not serious.” Write three things that really fascinated you as a child. This is a little clue where you want to go.
Exercise 2. Looking for patterns: 20 favorite activities
Now let's make a list of 20 of your favorite activities. Let some of them seem banal to you (for example, eat delicious food) - write anyway. When the list is ready, look carefully at these activities. See the patterns? Could it be that things related to helping people prevail on your list? Or some sports? Or affairs connected with quiet monotonous work?
Consider what groups this list can be divided into. It will help you understand what kind of life you would like to live.
Exercise 3. Your Perfect Environment
If no one believes in you, then it becomes even more difficult to believe in yourself. That is why the environment that generates winners almost always consists of winners. Unfortunately, the environment in which we are accustomed to growing does not favor the creation of geniuses.
Imagine that the world has changed overnight according to your needs. And the next morning it will be filled with people like you want. What will these people be like? What qualities do they have? Maybe all of them are creative, or, conversely, these are people who have passed a compromise of five plus? Maybe they do everything quickly, or, on the contrary, would you like to slow down the world?
What did you learn about yourself and what do you need to fully prove yourself?
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Exercise 4. Five Lives
Now imagine: you will have five lives. And in each of them you can become what you want. How do you live these five lives?
This exercise, like everyone else, you can customize for yourself. If you manage for three lives - take three. It takes ten - do not deny yourself anything.
So, imagine that you will devote one life to biology, the second - to professional travel, the third - to have a large family with a bunch of children, in the fourth you will become a sculptor, and in the fifth - an astronaut. Which one do you like more?
The most important thing here is to understand the following: if you need to choose only one life, even the one you like best, you will still miss the rest. Because they are your integral part. They rumbled into our heads: “Decide!” This is sad.
In the world there are people born for a single purpose, but this is a rare exception. Each of your lives contains something that you really love and need. And you can bring it into your life.
Exercise 5. My Perfect Day
Now we have a long walk according to your imagination. Take a pen and a piece, and drive. So how do you see your perfect day?
Live this day in the present tense and in every detail: where do you wake up, what kind of house is it, what do you eat for breakfast, what clothes do you wear, what do you do, what kind of work do you do, at home or in the office?
Do not limit your imagination. Describe the day that you would live, if you had absolute freedom, unlimited funds and all the strengths and skills that you only dreamed about.
After the list is compiled, divide all your fantasies into three groups:
What of this do you need as air.
Which is optional, but I would very much like to have it anyway.
What you can do without.
Our life consists of life experience, stories, roles, relationships, earnings, skills. Some of this we ourselves choose. Some of what we call our choice is actually a compromise. Something generally a coincidence. Some of this is necessary and very expensive. But all this is not you. Focus on yourself. And these exercises will help you determine your calling.
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