A short cut to identifying your motivations and strengths might be to ask 5-6 people you’ve worked with for some honest feedback on what you’re like. I’d recommend asking people who’ve managed you, peers and people you’ve managed. Look at the consistencies, and the differences, and work out what your ‘spike’ is. As you won’t be working with them,... See more
I meet a lot of people searching for something (career, relationship, etc). And yet, when it ’s put in front of them, they won’t pursue it because they fear pain (getting hurt, failure, etc.). So they unconsciously (and expensively) trade self protection for misery.
Commitments become easier when you realize that, after enough wandering, the grass is unlikely to be greener, pursuing novelty has diminishing returns, and continuous optimizing comes at the cost of compounding—and nearly everything great compounds