This is very inspirational, thank you Catherine! I keep coming back to the question of whether it’s worth it to try and capitalize on one’s obvious skills (e.g. you as a physicist). At what point does one tell themself “To hell with what I spent many years learning about and let’s do this other thing I’m great at”? I found Nate Soares’s “Be a new homunculus” very useful to think about this question, though I seem unable to resolve myself to give those skills up. At what point it’s not worth it to explore where those could be uniquely useful (and it would be a waste to give it up) anymore?
Is there something you would have told your younger self to convince you to take that path sooner?
This is very inspirational, thank you Catherine! I keep coming back to the question of whether it’s worth it to try and capitalize on one’s obvious skills (e.g. you as a physicist). At what point does one tell themself “To hell with what I spent many years learning about and let’s do this other thing I’m great at”? I found Nate Soares’s “Be a new homunculus” very useful to think about this question, though I seem unable to resolve myself to give those skills up. At what point it’s not worth it to explore where those could be uniquely useful (and it would be a waste to give it up) anymore?
Is there something you would have told your younger self to convince you to take that path sooner?