00:00all right so you want to know how to
00:02choose your dream career and most people
00:04never figure this out and some that are
00:07lucky will figure it out after decades
00:09but in this video I'm going to show you
00:10how you can set yourself up for success
00:12by using what I like to call the 10-step
00:15regret minimization framework for
00:18choosing your dream career and this is a
00:20framework where if you follow the steps
00:21in this video you're pretty much
00:23guaranteed to find a career that you
00:25love for some of you you might know
00:26which one is right for you by the end of
00:28the video and for others it might take
00:30you a few months but if you stay
00:31committed to this framework you will
00:33eventually find your dream career and
00:35the first step is you want to begin with
00:37the end in mind and this is a
00:39recommendation from Stephen Covey and
00:41his book Seven Habits of Highly
00:43Successful People and basically what
00:45this means is you don't want to choose
00:46the degree you want to choose the career
00:49and even more than that you want to
00:50choose the skill that the career is
00:53going to teach you and so you really
00:54want to choose a career that teaches you
00:57in-demand skills and you want to have a
00:59nice mix of skills that are in demand
01:01and modern and also Evergreen skills so
01:04a skill that's in demand in modern for
01:06instance might be software development
01:07and an evergreen skill might be
01:09something like operations management
01:11marketing or sales and the way that I
01:14like to think about Evergreen skills is
01:15I like to think if I learn this skill
01:17and I had a time machine and I went 1
01:20000 years in the past would it still be
01:22useful and if the answer to that is yes
01:24then it's probably an evergreen skill
01:26and when you combine Evergreen skills
01:28and trending skills you have a recipe
01:31for success but the big problem with
01:33trending skills is a lot of them may be
01:35outsourced or automated right we have ai
01:37coming up and there's a lot of jobs that
01:40are unfortunately being eliminated
01:41because of it and so the most important
01:43out of the two skills are going to be
01:45the Evergreen ones because if you get
01:47really good at Marketing sales or
01:48operations it does not matter what
01:51happens in the economy or what happens
01:52with AI your skills are always going to
01:55be valuable now the career or the
01:57vehicle that you choose is going going
02:00to be incredibly important choosing
02:02which industry you go into choosing
02:04which career choosing which college
02:06degree if that's what you go for and
02:08choosing the jobs that you apply for are
02:10incredibly important you do not want to
02:12go into a dead end career where there's
02:14no opportunity you want to go where the
02:17opportunity is and I know choosing the
02:19right career is incredibly difficult and
02:21there's a lot that goes into it and so
02:23this weekend I'm actually doing a live
02:25three day challenge where I will
02:27actually be interacting with everybody
02:28over zoom and I'm going to be presenting
02:30exactly how to choose your dream career
02:32I'm going to be showing you a bunch of
02:33different skills that are valuable in
02:35presenting the best tips that I've
02:36compiled over years now usually I charge
02:39300 to 600 per hour for consultations
02:41but I wanted to make something that's
02:43much more affordable than that and
02:44something that I can make a big impact
02:46and help a bunch of people with so
02:48that's what I'm going to be doing this
02:49weekend you can check that out down in
02:50the description as well as the pinned
02:52comment below but I'm also going to be
02:53giving some tips on how to choose that
02:55career in this video and the first one
02:58is don't follow your passion following
03:00your passion when it comes to a career
03:02is some of the worst advice that you can
03:04take be honest with yourself if you
03:06really were to follow your passion it
03:08would probably include eating Cheetos
03:10and playing first-person shooter games
03:12like Call of Duty all day and the truth
03:14is very very few people can get paid to
03:17do that there's not that many jobs out
03:19there that will let you do that and the
03:21few people that are able to make money
03:22doing that are world-class professionals
03:25this is unfortunately what colleges are
03:27promoting these days they created a
03:28bunch of useless Majors that do not lead
03:31people to being able to get jobs and
03:33people end up deep in debt and they end
03:35up getting a job that they could have
03:36gotten probably without a college degree
03:38in the first place now the second piece
03:41of advice and this is the second worst
03:42thing that you could possibly do is to
03:45purely follow the money making sure that
03:47you can actually get paid for what you
03:49do is important but if that's purely the
03:51only thing you're doing it for you're
03:53gonna set yourself up for failure as
03:55well tons of people become lawyers or
03:57doctors or Engineers just just for the
04:00money and many of them end up not making
04:02it in the first place because it's
04:04actually really difficult to get into
04:05those careers but the second thing is
04:07those are the careers where it's obvious
04:09that they make good money and any career
04:11like that where it's really well
04:13established is not going to be the best
04:15opportunity the careers with the best
04:17opportunities are the ones where there
04:19is not a beaten path right so there's
04:21not a very clear path for how to get
04:23into those careers and typically the
04:25careers that have the best opportunity
04:26don't require college so what should you
04:29do instead well first of all you want to
04:32play to your strengths all of us were
04:35either born with or we developed
04:37strengths or skills at an early age that
04:40are things that we are much better at
04:42than most people for some people it
04:44might be creative skills for some people
04:46it might be that you're really good at
04:47Organization for others you're really
04:49good at math or maybe you grew up and
04:51you had a natural affinity for selling
04:53things or computer programming but the
04:55best thing to do is to play to your
04:57strengths because to other people you
04:59are going to look like a wizard but to
05:02you it seems like it's easy and this is
05:04the kind of situation that you want to
05:06get yourself into so Naval ravicant has
05:08a really good quote where he says choose
05:11something where it seems like work to
05:13others but it feels like play to you and
05:16research has shown that people grow to
05:18love or be passionate about things that
05:21they are good at and this is something
05:22that Cal Newport details extensively in
05:24his book so good they can't ignore you
05:27so ironically the people who go for
05:29their passion over 95 percent of their
05:32time end up hating their job and the
05:34people who go for a job that's something
05:35that they're naturally good at much more
05:37often end up loving it and the next
05:40thing you want to do and you want to
05:41keep in mind is to give value to others
05:45so Zig Ziglar has a really good quote
05:47where he says if you give other people
05:49what they want you will get anything
05:51that you want and this is really the
05:53mindset that you want to have because in
05:55evolution we basically evolved in
05:56villages of about 100 to 200 people
05:59right so so we were in these small
06:00tribes and everybody in the tribe helped
06:03each other out now in modern times
06:05things aren't really like this anymore
06:06we're kind of in a tribe of like what
06:09seven or eight billion people now but
06:11our minds still work the same way we are
06:14naturally programmed to want to help
06:16other people who are in our tribe and so
06:18this weird selfish narcissistic like
06:21Follow Your Passion thing that keeps
06:23getting parroted over and over again is
06:26not the natural way of things instead
06:28you should seek to help other people out
06:30and in return you will be helped and I
06:33can assure you from first-hand
06:34experience that giving value to other
06:36people is much more meaningful than just
06:39trying to seek out dopamine right just
06:41doing whatever you're passionate about
06:43constantly trying to seek out dopamine
06:45is kind of a degenerate way to live your
06:47life you'll just want more and more
06:48dopamine until eventually there's no
06:50more dopamine to be had and then you'll
06:52just feel kind of empty and depressed
06:54right so what you want to do instead is
06:56seek first to help other people and you
06:59will be helped in in return and this
07:00ties back into the first point that I
07:02mentioned which is go where the
07:03opportunity is so let's use the tribal
07:06example again so you're in a tribe of
07:07200 people and you're 16 years old and
07:10you're trying to figure out what you're
07:11going to do in the tribe and there's 20
07:12fishermen and there's only one farmer
07:15and the fishermen are all extremely good
07:17at their job it will take you probably
07:19five to ten years to even get close to
07:22their level so on a scale of like 1 to
07:24100 if it's a video game for instance
07:26they're all at least 80 out of 100.
07:28whereas the farmer is only a level 20
07:30out of 100 because he's doing something
07:32that not that many other people have
07:34been doing so he's having to figure it
07:36all out on his own and so it'd be much
07:38easier for you to get to his level you
07:40could probably do it within like a year
07:42than if you tried to become a master
07:43fisherman and the truth is if a
07:45crocodile ate one of the fishermen one
07:47day there'd still be like 19 more so
07:49realistically speaking the tribe
07:51wouldn't miss them that much
07:53ouch that hurts whereas if the farmer
07:55one day got eaten by a bear that winter
07:57they wouldn't have any grain and half
07:59the the tribe would probably starve so
08:01in this particular case the smart move
08:03is to go where the opportunity is and
08:05learn how to become a farmer in the same
08:07exact situation basically is happening
08:09in the modern world as well Society
08:11tries to push you into certain careers
08:13like doctor or lawyer and don't get me
08:15wrong these careers are okay but by
08:17definition because of the fact that
08:19they're so well established they are
08:21going to be mediocre at best and the
08:23careers that aren't as well established
08:25are where the real opportunity is so the
08:27vehicle that you choose is so important
08:30and you want to choose a career where
08:32there's a ton of opportunity because
08:34when you choose a career like that
08:35you're going to make more money you're
08:37going to be more well respected you're
08:38also going to have more freedom and
08:40autonomy and you're probably going to
08:42enjoy the career more as well and this
08:44ties into the next point which is
08:46basically the most Giga Brain cheat code
08:48thing that you can possibly do which is
08:50get paid to learn in-demand skills now
08:54the best thing about these skills that
08:55are so in demand is you can actually get
08:58paid to learn them because the barrier
09:00to entry is so low right the farmer only
09:03was level 20 out of 100 whereas the
09:05fishermen had to be at least level 80
09:07out of 100 so it's much easier to learn
09:09the basics and get your foot in the door
09:11when it comes to these in-demand skills
09:13and once you've chosen the career you
09:15want to move on to the next point which
09:17is choose a job that gives you value
09:20right so there's many different forms of
09:21value and the first one that everybody
09:23always thinks of is pay and don't get me
09:25wrong pay is very important but there
09:27are many other things that you should
09:29consider for instance benefits good
09:31Lifestyle the ability to work remote
09:33getting paid to learn valuable skills
09:35opportunities for promotion and even if
09:38you want to eventually start a business
09:3999 of the time it's better off to start
09:42with a job and I honestly don't think
09:44I've met a single successful business
09:46person who didn't start off with a job a
09:49lot of the time they'll start off with a
09:50job that teaches them in-demand skills
09:52and in many cases they will use their
09:53job in order to fund their business when
09:55they're first getting it off the ground
09:57so in some cases it might be good to
09:58find a job that It's relatively chill so
10:00that you have a lot of free time or a
10:02job that pays you really well so you can
10:03spend a bunch of that money on your
10:05business so yeah it's very important to
10:07choose jobs that give you value and
10:09value is going to be different depending
10:11on the person so for some of you you
10:13might be in a season of your life where
10:15you don't really care about getting paid
10:17all that much you kind of just want a
10:18remote job where they'll let you go and
10:20travel the world for instance and if you
10:22can get a job that pays you two thousand
10:23dollars a month and it's fully remote
10:25you can live like a king in a country
10:27like Thailand or the Philippines now the
10:29next point on this list is you want to
10:31avoid making irreversible decisions and
10:34another way of saying this is you want
10:35to stay as flexible as possible so Jeff
10:38Bezos talks about his framework for
10:40decision making and the way he explains
10:42it is there are two different types of
10:43decisions and basically he explains it
10:46like there's two different types of
10:47doors there's doors that when you go out
10:49you can come back in and then there's
10:51some doors where when you go out the
10:53door is locked and you can't come back
10:55in anymore and so if you are going to
10:57make a decision where it's basically
10:59reversible you really want to think
11:01about it a lot and generally speaking
11:03you want to try to avoid making those
11:05decisions if possible and one great way
11:08to do this is to learn a skill that is
11:10flexible there's certain skills that are
11:12incredibly flexible where you can use
11:14them in just about any industry any
11:16company and many different careers out
11:18there so an example of these types of
11:19skills are going to be Marketing sales
11:21operations and basically any type of
11:23technology related skill an example of
11:25an irreversible decision would be going
11:28to med school or law school this is
11:30something that you really want to think
11:31about because it's going to take up many
11:33years of your life a ton of your time
11:35and efforts and also it's going to cost
11:36you a ton of money now the next one on
11:39the list is for people who don't really
11:40have any idea what they like or what
11:43they're good at and that is to try new
11:46things so if you have no clue what you
11:48like or what you're good at that's
11:49probably because you haven't done that
11:51many things so go out there do a bunch
11:53of research look at a bunch of different
11:55websites shadow people talk to people in
11:57different careers ask your family
11:59members ask your friends and it's very
12:01easy or cheap to try out a bunch of
12:03different skills online so for instance
12:05if you think you might be interested in
12:07software development there's lots of
12:09different free sites out there where you
12:10can get trained on how to do it and if
12:12you really hate it chances are that's
12:13not something you should do and the next
12:15one on the list is pretty obvious but I
12:17feel like I have to State it and that is
12:19do your research a lot of people choose
12:22a career based on what their family
12:23wants them to do or what popular culture
12:26says they should do or maybe they just
12:28think a TV show is really cool so they
12:29choose to become a doctor or a nurse
12:31because of a TV show as silly as that is
12:33a lot of people make decisions like that
12:35and you definitely don't want to do that
12:37instead you want to make sure to do your
12:39research because pop culture TV and
12:41Society tend to romanticize certain
12:43careers so the expectation and the
12:46reality are going to be completely
12:47different so obviously in a single video
12:49I can't go in depth on any of these
12:51things and that's why I'm doing this
12:53three-day live event this weekend so I
12:55highly recommend checking that out and
12:57again it'll be down in the description
12:58as well as the pen comment below I'll be
13:00there live to answer any questions that
13:02you have but in the meantime check out
13:04this video on remote jobs that are
13:06always hiring by clicking right here
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