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Nim Talib would say is a lot of what you should do in life is not actually pursue a very narrow goal. It's increase your surface area exposure to positive upside optionality. You can make actions that will increase your chance of getting lucky. Take that Zoom call from someone you've never heard of every now and then.
Because if you don't do that, if you're so narrowly focused on what you think you want to become, one, that's all you can possibly become. And secondly, you'll probably fail anyway cuz there are loads of other people trying to be those things.
I make a massive divide between I think sports which people intrinsically enjoy and activities which people intrinsically enjoy where commercially they're probably going to fail. There's room for a hundred rich tennis players in the world. You're not going to be one of them. But if you really enjoy tennis and you'll enjoy getting to number 3,420. You're not going to be the next U2. But if you really enjoy playing instruments, go right ahead.
What really worries me is people who are fixated on some very commonly held end goal where the cost of entry actually outweighs the prize and where the odds of success are appalling to begin with.