Goals: The Setting and Pursuit Thereof.
I just finished watching a rare video by the popular machining and engineering blogger AvE, where he gives some useful life-advice . Even allowing for AvE's "colorful" language, it's still some very solid advice. Please watch the video first, else what follows may not make much sense. The next most important thing is to give yourself permission to change or reorder your goals, and to do so by treating the goal selection process itself as a goal, something to pursue and learn to do well. In my case, back in the early 1970's I was a very dysfunctional teenager who happened to get decent grades, and who everyone assumed would go directly to a good university. I desperately wanted some breathing room to figure myself out (I was depressed and silently suicidal, with one older brother dead to suicide and the other extremely emotionally disturbed). I didn't disagree that college was in my future, but I knew I wasn't ready. Yet I didn't see any alter...