I sometimes thought that I can find a guru who can gave some good tips, advice and directions on my journey of life, but did anyone find one? or there isn’t one at all?
The thing is that I know what I should do, I should collect more information on those options and then made my decision, but I often feel insecure because I wish someone, a guru can tell me “Yes, you are right, you should collect more information and then make up your mind”.
Maybe only aging and experience can eliminate this insecurity.
There is another option unless you ABSOLUTELY have to make a decision now which I don’t really know why you would.
You could postphone the decision making by getting some kind of a part-time job or full-time job just for now. Sometimes it’s a good thing to get away from something - to give ourselves a little breathing room. Obviously, unless all of this is just some kind of a scenario , ( I tend to be a skeptic) you’re being much too focused on what to do. The more you “try” to think, the less will come to you - think of the pains in your head. So Just relax about it.
Aside from that, while you’re doing whatever you choose to be doing, it might be a good idea to take pencil and paper, draw a line down the middle, and put the benefits, financial and otherwise, and the negatives - Economics on one side and - Quantum Mechanics on the other, and begin writing. But only in a relaxed manner. Walking a lot is helpful too - but think of nothing - just let whatever comes -come.
Of course, I may be completey wrong in this. And always remember the question: WHAT DO [size=200]I [/size]REALLY WANT TO DO?
Kriswest was right - you will only lose control with a guru - but losing control isn’t necessarily a bad thing - but it has to be on your terms, not a guru’s.
Or - being that it’s economics and/or quantum mechanics, you might also think of being a Math professor in a college. For either of those two, I would think you would have to have a strong logical, mathimatical, organized mind.
Thank you - and good luck.
You are about to locked in a room for the rest of your life. In this room, through two speakers, will play a Taylor Dane song of your choice incessantly until you die.
Now every Taylor Dane song equally sucks, but you have to choose one. What are you going to do, listen to them all and pick the one you like most?
What are your experiences with having to listen to a Talyor Dane song over and over again in a locked room until you die… and how did you choose the song (if you did)?
If you over-rely on your own decision making power, then you will always be limited by your own lack of vision, fears and constraints. The selection of things that you are capable of deciding is tiny compared to the amount of actual possibilities. All of the best things that have happened to me have happened because I let myself be taken in by a flow of events, rather than attempting to actively decide on my next steps. I think this is much easier to achieve when you are younger, but is possible throughout your whole life.
The decision you are making now is in many senses arbitrary. Not that it will not affect your life, but you have no way of knowing the outcomes of each different option, therefore the foundations of the decision making process are flawed.
I would therefore go with whichever one you feel is more interesting. Just look at some course descriptions and choose the course that, when you look at them, you think ‘I wish I knew that’. If there aren’t any such courses, don’t bother going to University and do something else instead.
I wouldn’t make any “lightheaded” decisions either. Deciding to study something just because it looks interesting sounds like what Arbiter was criticizing me for.
What are your talents? What are you good at? This should be your guide.
If you aren’t good at anything, why go to university then? Not everyone has to study – that’s reality.
Moreover, even if you are good at certain things, that does not mean you should study them. I, for one, had several opportunities in my life, but I never took any one of them.
I disagree that this is a relevant question. If somebody has talents they’ll find ways to exploit them in any discipline. Overall, though, people are good at what they want to be good at. Almost anyone can learn Maths, or Science, or Quantum Mechanics, or Philosophy, or English Literature, at least to the standard where they can get a good undergraduate degree.
Almost anyone? Not me. I doubt your “almost anyone” too. That would depend on the individual brain and the mind.
Do you really believe that? We do have our limitations even when we have strived to reach for the stars, in a manner of speaking.
You can qualify that though by saying that to some degree some people can be better at something which they might want to be good at - it’s a process - but still not to the point of where they would want to be.
I figure that there are any number of people who would like to excel or to be good at something which they know, realistically speaking, that they won’t be. We do have our limits - even after having explored them - they’re there. But we might have stretched them a bit.
Doubtlessly not everyone is capable of becoming a world leading professor in Quantum Mechanics. There are limits that some can reach and others can exceed, sure. Degrees, though, are set up for the averagely intelligent, averagely motivated person. Out of the wide variety of people that I went to university with, none actually struggled to pass their degree unless they couldn’t be bothered to do the work. Most people got by on something like 10 hours a week - god knows how well they’d all have done if they actually bothered to do the 40 hours a week they were supposed to be doing.
You could if you actually wanted one. I doubt you would even find any of those subjects that challenging.
But I wasn’t speaking about university/academic types - I was speaking about peons like myself.
I can look at this in two ways - you’re either mocking me, which is okay, or you’re affirming my great intelligence.
You see, when one knows his or her own limits and embraces them, what is there to be insulted about? Aside from that, it’s always a good thing to try to look “beyond” one’s own limits - just in case. You’ll never know what else you’ll find when looking for gems - some undiscovered ones - perhaps a buried city, a new galaxy, et cetera.
I find each of those subjects interesting, except for the Math, though even at times the challenge of math can be exhilarating though not particularly fruitful and part of the enjoyment for me insofar as the others are concerned, is that they can indeed be a challenge, aside from the fact that they blow my mind, in a great way.
English Lit probably not too much of a challenge at all but enjoyable.
You need to have a clear mind. You know that saying " sleep on it " ?
When you awake from a nice sleep, your mind is no longer turbid and you can assess and judge situations with more clarity and wisdom.
Another thing that helps is going somewhere very quiet and isolated, like a forest or field. Go out there, no electronics, and just sit down somewhere and breathe. Your mind will relax and then you can soundly decide which things to pursue in life and so on.
, ( I tend to be a skeptic) you’re being much too focused on what to do. The more you “try” to think, the less will come to you - think of the pains in your head. So Just relax about it.
I doubt your “almost anyone” too. That would depend on the individual brain and the mind.