In the last year or so I started to see so many people of my age that have done truly incredible things and still doing more.
For the vast majority of my life my only goals were gettimg academic satisfaction and doing unproductive stuff in the free time to get temporary pleasure. No end goal whatsoever.
I kind of don’t know what I’ve been doing in the last 17 years while someone gets a patent on solar systems, other invents a new recyclable plastic, and another found a successful startup. I mean, they all find what they’re supposed to be doing with their lives and excel in them.
I feel overwhelmed for trying to pace up with these kind of people. Yet I don’t like the way the things are and I can’t do anything but envy those people.
Anyone with experience in this regard? How did you deal with this? Did you eventually “pace up” with these people or was it too late or an unattainable goal?
Edit: Whoops, I didn’t expect so many replies! Thanks, I’ll look into them all

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ambitious! I like it. Well I don’t know all about you, so here’s what I suggest:

    Write down what it is you really want (privately), because “I want more” is very broad and not a need that can easily be satisfied.

    • Do you want to be famous such that many people who you’ve never met would know your name?
    • Do you want to be rich and powerful so that you can retire early and have stuff taken care for you?
    • Do you want to be a small part of developing a big invention that benefits the whole world?
    • Do you want to help people in any way you can even if it meant sacrifices to yourself?
    • Do you want to become knowledgeable in an area where only a few hundred people have a true understanding of the latest advancements?
    • Do you want to travel to every corner of the world, or further into space?
    • Do you want to live your life in a way that will help bring a more livable world for future generations?

    Each of these all will require some levels of dedication, effort, resolve, money and luck. Figure out what it is you want and to what level, figure out what are the challenges keeping you from it (money, time, knowledge, luck, connections, physical/mental complications, what have you), then figure out how to best deal with these challenges to get to your goal.