You’ll waste months on a skill that doesn’t stick. That’s not wasted. That’s how you found the one that does.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Finding what you are for requires eliminating things, and elimination costs real time. Months spent on something that did not hold are not a detour from the search; they are the search, since the only way to learn that a thing is not yours is to give it a fair run. Nobody gets that information without paying for it.

Count the things you tried and dropped as finished experiments rather than failures, and write down what each taught you about what you like. Give the next one a fixed trial period, long enough to be fair. Then decide honestly and move on.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which abandoned skill taught you something about what you want?

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