Roadmap: The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life by Roadtrip Nation

Author:Roadtrip Nation
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2015-04-06T14:00:00+00:00

Experience Perpetual Motion

We might know what we’re good at, but to Gary’s point, it’s more likely that we develop what we’re good at as we genuinely explore what we’re interested in. It’s a perpetual-motion situation—your interest in something drives you to develop your skills in it, not the other way around. It’s important to start with what you’re interested in so that as you layer on your skills the two will come together in the right way. Just because you’re skilled in math doesn’t mean you need to learn to love crunching numbers at an accounting firm. Better to start with your interest in sports and then layer on your skill in math to end up running the stats for the Lakers. You start with your interests, develop skills, and then see what happens. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Beta. Beta. Beta.

It’s all about self-driven growth. “Even the stuff you’re really good at, you’re not necessarily really good at right away,” says Ira Glass,* the host of This American Life. Ira is one of the main voices of public radio these days. His program, syndicated to more than five hundred radio stations, with millions more listeners online, ushered in a new wave of journalistic storytelling. Ira himself is, of course, a master storyteller and—as befitting a good interviewer—a great listener. But was he always? Is that how he began? Where did he get the chops? When we asked this, he paused for a moment, looking around in his recording booth, and said, “The key thing, I think, is to just force yourself through the work, to put yourself in the position where you have to turn out product. That’s what will force the skills to come.”

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