Shubha Chakravarthy
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read

I have had similar experiences. What I found helpful was to take an experimenter or scientist’s curious, open and exploratory mindset as the guiding metaphor for my actions. You start out with a hypothesis, you make small experiments. You compare expected outcomes with actual outcomes. They will not be the same. Then you do a deep dive and understand what those deviations are, and what caused them. Then you reset your hypothesis and start over. I have noticed that over time my hypotheses have gotten more accurate and the thing I have gotten a bit smarter about is mining for lessons more deeply and being a bit more thoughtful in formulating my next hypothesis. Oh, and not committing the farm on each bet. In fact, there is an interesting book “Working Identity” that explores this in depth. I don’t agree with all she says in the book, but it offers a helpful viewpoint with which to view your various attempts to find “the” path. Congrats on having the courage to keep trying, I have no doubt you will find the right path for you.

    Shubha Chakravarthy

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