your interests are invaluable - by Isabel - Mind Mine
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what holds your attention tells you something important about yourself
A pensive Isabel gazing out at Whitestone Lake, August 2021 My friend loves to talk about ideas. He loves to discuss the future: electric vehicles, technology, blockchain and all the other juicy high level forces that will shape how we interact with the world in a decade or so. Interesting stuff, for sure. For many people. But I’ve come to realize that it is just not my set of interests. I used to fight this. I used to think: why can’t I love the future and technology as much as him? Surely, there are plenty of job opportunities and high potential paths in this sphere, but I couldn’t…
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