Figuring Out Your Purpose
- There are 2 kinds of people, jackhammers and hummingbirds.
- Jackhammers are people who know what they want to do in life and go at it with their 100%; just like how these birds rapidly bore holes into trees.
- Hummingbirds are people who just go from flower to flower until they discover what they really want.
- You don't have to stress about what's that one thing you were meant to do with your life.
- You can just keep on trying various things for now like hummingbirds; dedicate a year into this, 2 years into that, etc.
- Don't get suicidal and think you don't have a purpose, you just don't know it yet.
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