It then becomes your job to spend the time to decide what it is that you really want, versus what you fell into after law school for (maybe) a lot of the wrong reasons. Not rocket science, but if you start to look at the world as a fundamentally friendly one in which things can line up to help you to be your best self, opportunities will present themselves. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”. It contains a quote that has been fundamental in my own life: One of the more useful books I read on this point was The Power of Intention by Dr. I’ve spent a lot of time reading books to try to reduce the impact of this socialization in my own life, and am interested in learning to change thought patterns that keep us feeling stuck. Most of our socialization (particularly when the legal education is layered on), is focused on avoiding known risks and bolstering traditional institutions. If you have trouble with this type of thinking, it’s understandable. But in all cases they took an action – they applied for the right job, or created it – and were persistent until the opportunity presented itself. In some cases they made financial or other sacrifices to get into the dream industry (as I did). It’s because they believed in themselves and in the idea that the right job for them was out there. It’s not because they are magical unicorns. So much energy is spent on deciding how to invest money, but much less is devoted to deciding how to invest our hours in a way that maxes out our time on the planet. On the first point, how can it not matter? Since we have one life to live, we have to spend it in a way that allows us to look back at the end of our lives and feel we “invested” our time wisely.
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