Here’s the canonical case: you grow up with people who know from age five that they want to be doctors, truck drivers, belly dancers, whatever. But you have no idea where you fit in, and as time goes on, you start to suspect that you don’t fit in anywhere .

There’s a couple things going on here. First, you should check back in with those folks and... See more

When people fail to find their niche, and when we fail to helpthem find it, we don’t just suffer from their absence. We also suffer from their presence in the wrong place.