The thing is I don't think most anyone actually ends up following their dreams, but either directly follows their parents' dreams for them or goes in the direct opposite direction. And then when you mix in the fact that unions lost the propaganda war so badly that skilled blue collar work is considered so undesirable you have pick an intellectual pursuit with the constant refrain of a college degree being the only thing necessary to have the American Dream you end up with tons of people either not hacking their way through med/law school or pursuing Art History or something else that was never meant to produce tons of marketable jobs.
My wife is an MD. She started pursuing a DDS, when that didn't satisfy she started pursuing a PhD, when that dream changed she went to med school. She as had two residency programs. The target shifts as we learn more about the target and about ourselves. There's nothing wrong with this. There *is something wrong with telling people they can only have one dream.The thing is I don't think most anyone actually ends up following their dreams
I think a lot of people end up following their dreams. I just think they have many, many dreams that are constantly changing. I think the big fallacy here is the idea that we are supposed to have one dream and hold to it for the duration of our careers.
The most important thing that I can do today is repeat this phrase to reinforce it. The other thing that people either forget or don't want to talk about is that you're going to fail. A LOT. Over and over again - You're just going to fail less badly each time on average.I think the big fallacy here is the idea that we are supposed to have one dream and hold to it for the duration of our careers.
I think I agree with this partially. I feel people's dreams also develop and change as they get older/reality sets in and end up following parts of their dreams. For instance, I love making music, but I know how making a living off music works most of the time. So I learned/got pretty decent at recording, mixing, an mastering so I could a least make a living doing what my dreams were, even if it's no my music I'm making. In reality I just love music and want to be part of the engineering framework of sounds that touch people lives.