With all the advice you freely receive and seek, always remember your personality is uniquely yours.
Every field has its personality and ‘sweet spot’. I can share with you everything I did for me to be where I am today, but neuroscience has taught us that no two people are the same – even identical twins.
Your level on a scale of your risk appetite; tolerance for stress, chronotype, and more all play a role in determining your ‘sweet spot’.
The journey one embarked on to become a CEO, for instance, may 100% not work for you. This realisation is very important or else you will find yourself chasing things that are not yours.
For me, self-awareness and self-knowledge are crucial for you to map your journey and career.
Create something uniquely you and this can only happen if you are open-minded to try new things that align with your natural strengths and passions.
The problem is the temptation of just wanting to be rich overnight by taking shortcuts.
You may embark on a career that requires a person who has a higher level of risk appetite than you and that career won’t yield expected results for you like someone you must have seen thriving in that career.
This concern and observation led me to author my latest book – The Neuroscience of Effective Leadership:
Transforming Leaders from Leadership Darkness to Leadership Light, to help people raise their level of self-awareness by understanding how the brain works.
This is important because everything we think, do, and feel is controlled by the brain.
This journey of life is all about self-discovery and this helps you craft the path that is uniquely you instead of conforming and becoming somebody else’s copy, which leads to frustration.
It is never too late for you to change.
