Have you ever
wondered why everyone is now entitled to give advice regarding any subject you
can possible think about? There are a lot of articles, books, videos about
how to be successful, how to make a man like you, how to be positive etc.
Most of them are saying the same things and are not helping anyone really.
Truth is, nobody can tell you how to live your life because no one knows what
is better for you than yourself. That's why, you have to discover what you
want, what you like and desire most, but also what can make you truly happy
because that's the main goal - happiness. However, there are a few things about
society that you can learn and try to figure a way to guide yourself by your
principles and adapt to the social environment simultaneously.
Now, career is very important for most of people and I don't know if
that's right or wrong, but people usually want to work as little as possible
and gain as much as possible or just want to do what they like and be the best
at it. Whatever road you choose, you desire to be successful. For the most part,
the younger side of the world population wants to achieve this success as
quickly as they can. They have no patience at all. At the same time, they are
very disoriented and confused about what they would like to do with their
lives, so much that a few of them get lost along the way. Others, just waste a
lot of time just to discover what they are good at and enjoy at the same time.
Reid Hoffman, co-founder at LinkedIn spent 15 years after graduating to figure
it out. Probably not the most adequate amount of time. As far as college
graduates and their careers go, he has a pretty interesting theory: you just
need to know 3 secrets to be highly successful. Of course, as 3 is the magic
number it sounds like another happy ending fairytale written by a guy who
commited suicide afterwards, but Mr. Hoffman looks like he knows what he's
talking about. He wrote The Start-up of You, but there is
also available a very interesting slide show that contains the main ideas from
the book. Take a look:
