What Career Should You Choose? 3 Steps to Find Out

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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“Build on your strengths, NOT weaknesses” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Today I’m showing you the 3 steps to finding the right career for you. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, or are trying to figure out the right line of work to go into, I’m going through the simple 3-step process to find out what you should do, and what you will be happy doing long-term. Because that is what is really important for a career: Find out what you can enjoy day in and day out for years. You will find certain topics and issues that fascinate you for a moment in time, but that will turn into feeling like just a lot of work if you have to do them day after day for years. So, instead of just looking at what you might be infatuated with at the moment, try to understand what you have a deep and lasting curiosity for, because that is the work that, over time, while it might not be as interesting as it once was, you will still enjoy doing. Listen to today’s episode to find the rest of the three steps.. “Build a business that can scale up without a lot of work” - Tai Lopez (click to tweet) Points to Keep In Mind Build on your strengths, NOT weaknesses Build on curiosity. You’re love for what you do might come and go a bit, but if you’re super curious about it, you’ll stay interested in it If you build on curiosity, you might not feel at a 10 out of 10 all the time, but you’ll still enjoy it Build a business that can scale up without a lot of work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once it's your full time job, you're not gonna love it as much, so that's why you need something
0:04.0	you're naturally curious about. Out of the ashes you will rise. If you feel sad, lost, depressed,
0:09.6	finances are in the gutter. Social life, you're lonely. Out of the ashes, you will rise.
0:17.3	You're in my garage. Invest in yourself. Always be curious. Don't be a cynic.
0:23.9	Sleeping on a couch in a mobile home with only $47 in my bank account.
0:30.0	When everything's burnt to the ground, when your sad loss is depressed, and everything's at
0:34.3	rock bottom, you get to rebuild the exact and precise way you want the damn thing rebuilt.
0:41.2	Health, wealth, love, happiness, each of these four goals. In case you missed the last episode,
0:48.4	make sure you go back and check it out. Here's what went down. The mind doesn't always work for you.
0:52.3	It often works against you. Often works against you.
1:00.8	Coming up today. A lot of people say that's common sense. Well common sense isn't very common.
1:16.0	So what career should you choose? I get this question all the time. I'm gonna tell you a little
1:20.6	simple three rules. I give you a bonus fourth one. This also applies to what business you should
1:26.0	start if you're an entrepreneur or if you want a job. So number one, and the most important is
1:31.1	you can only build on strengths. You got to do what you're naturally strong at. A lot of people
1:35.4	build businesses, build their career around their weakness. Thinking that'll somehow fix their
1:39.7	weakness. Nah, it doesn't. Think about basketball player LeBron James. He's a big guy, six foot eight.
1:45.6	If you try to play soccer, he wouldn't be so good. You know no matter how much you practice,
1:49.3	he built on his strengths, same with business, same with career. If you're naturally a math person
1:53.9	or naturally not a math person, if you're naturally not a math person, don't get in that math
1:58.0	game and I'll tell you a lot of people say that's common sense. Well common sense isn't very common.
2:02.4	So the second thing is you got to build on curiosity. I'm down here in San Diego by the way,
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