“Be good at what you do, or do what you are good at”
“Like what you do, or do what you like”
I’ve always looked at these sayings in a weird manner, mainly because of the obviousness that I used to see in these arrangement of words as a kid, which made little sense as I grew older.
When you’re young, you’re told to do whatever you’re good at, or whatever you like, which basically sums it up to “whatever you’re passionate about”, and you end up thinking that’s how life is going to go, and you can’t help but wonder that doing what you like or what you’re passionate about, is the most obvious choice. But as you enter the real world, you realize that you somehow ended up doing some things that you don’t like as much, whether it’s working that corporate job to earn a living, or going to the gym and eating right to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and so on.
You start to see life on a spectrum of things you “have” to do, and things you are passionate about. And then comes a day, where you decide to whoop it all, and “follow your passion”, and start doing shit that you like. But then you realize that the “shit” you like, is only that, something you like but not something you’re good at, or have any experience in, it’s just the superficial interest, and soon you start getting frustrated, and finally, relapse into doing what you know, and maybe are a little good at it.
A good example of it comes from my personal experience — I have been going to the gym for almost two years now, not that I was good at weight lifting or had a lot of interest in it, but mainly to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and well, not to get fat again. It wasn’t until after a year and a half, when I actually started eating right, and improving my form and technique, that I started seeing good results, started learning more and more about the science behind it, and gaining more knowledge that I realized how much I already knew, and how easy it was to apply what I was learning.
On the contrary, I recently developed an interest in rock climbing, which although lies in the same arena of physical fitness, it’s entirely a different sport. I was instantly hooked, and started watching videos to learn new stuff, and following climbers, hoping to go to the climbing gym when I can, but to my surprise, I could not advance as quickly as I thought I could, and sometimes it became frustrating.
This merely stands to say that, sometimes, what we like or we what we think we are passionate about, is only that, and nothing else, we haven’t worked on it, even for a bit, and it’s just a superficial interest. However, something that we’ve been doing for years now, but never liked it too much, can become interesting as we start to learn more about it, and start understanding how things work.
In conclusion, don’t get too hung up on something that you really like, but feel that you’re not good at it. It’s always the move that you’ve practiced 10,000 times that scares Bruce Lee.
Quite interesting article!
What we like we dont get it.. what we get we dont like it..