How to Pick a Focus When You Have Many Passions
Without driving yourself mad trying to figure it out.
Finding your passion sounds like a fun pursuit.
But, for people with many different interests and passions, it often isn’t.
Let’s take one of my former coaching clients, Mike (not his real name). Mike was bored in his job so he really wanted to connect with his passion. But, as a naturally curious person, he had so many things he was interested in that he couldn’t decide which one to pursue.
His head was spinning and he felt like he was driving himself mad.
Cross-examinations
Mike’s predicament reminds me of a show called “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
**Some spoilers for Season 5 ahead.**
At one point in this show, an entire team of agents (except one person) vanishes without a single trace.
The only remaining team member, a super-intelligent scientist, gets captured by the military. His captors put him through one intense interrogation after the other to try to figure out what happened to the rest of his team.
But since the team was literally abducted by aliens, the scientist has no answers for his interrogators…
