Comments on: Risk Taking: The Key to Being a Grown-Up http://www.thedeets.com/2007/12/19/risk-taking-the-key-to-being-a-grown-up/ Consistently against torture. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gabe http://www.thedeets.com/2007/12/19/risk-taking-the-key-to-being-a-grown-up/#comment-4062 Gabe Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:56:24 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/2007/12/19/risk-taking-the-key-to-being-a-grown-up/#comment-4062 In other words, academia is boring. The real-world provides challenges that actually mean something. In other words, academia is boring. The real-world provides challenges that actually mean something.

]]> By: Gabe http://www.thedeets.com/2007/12/19/risk-taking-the-key-to-being-a-grown-up/#comment-4059 Gabe Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:37:07 +0000 http://www.thedeets.com/2007/12/19/risk-taking-the-key-to-being-a-grown-up/#comment-4059 Thanks for Sharing this Ed, great read. I'm a living breathing example of this. I've always been excellent at taking tests, I sailed through High School and went into college as a National Merit Commended student. But I failed out of college after two or three years do a depression brought on by lack of interest and ambition. All I wanted to do was play on my computer. It's turned out to be a good thing as I now have a nice career as an interactive designer and am more successful and happy than most of my friends who did go to and finish college. But there was definitely a point for a year or two there where I was utterly lost and pretty low. I think it's easy to get caught up in the motions when you are succeeding. But if you're not doing something you truly love, you'll eventually burn out. Thanks for Sharing this Ed, great read.

I’m a living breathing example of this. I’ve always been excellent at taking tests, I sailed through High School and went into college as a National Merit Commended student. But I failed out of college after two or three years do a depression brought on by lack of interest and ambition. All I wanted to do was play on my computer.

It’s turned out to be a good thing as I now have a nice career as an interactive designer and am more successful and happy than most of my friends who did go to and finish college. But there was definitely a point for a year or two there where I was utterly lost and pretty low.

I think it’s easy to get caught up in the motions when you are succeeding. But if you’re not doing something you truly love, you’ll eventually burn out.

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