Do you feel like trying a different profession, but can’t tell whether you should go for it? How do you tell a real step from a wish that is driven by nothing more than “wants”?
In this piece I explain why it matters to look at your life through causes and consequences rather than passing desires. Which job should you choose: the one that pays $500 more, the one that is strategically right, or the one that develops you as a person? Who is actually forbidding you to try something new? And what stands between “I want to” and “I’m doing it”: laziness, lack of energy, fear or circumstances?
I was asked a question: if a person has a profession, a settled life of some kind, and suddenly becomes interested in a completely different occupation, but it seems unreasonable, it seems they should be doing something else right now, something with better prospects, or even staying in their current profession — what should that person do? Is it worth trying something new, even if it seems illogical and unstructured? How should one relate to money, to the profession and to other people’s expectations? And what is important to see in yourself before taking the next step?
Causes and consequences, not your own wants
The first thing a person needs to do is to understand and see their life and to move from the standpoint of the causes and consequences of their own life, not of their own wants.
A person sees that they want to try something — and that is the whole point. They want to move according to their own wants. And in those wants, alas, there is often not freedom but an ego machine, or a violation of the law of the Universe. Or a person wants to stand against certain things, and in fact they are moving based on their own damage.
So if you look at this question deeply, a person of course needs to work on expanding their own perception. That can only be done through spiritual knowledge, spiritual science, the study of perceiving how the world is arranged. Everything else, honestly, is an illusion.
Whatever I say now about how to do this or that is an illusion. Of course, I give a lot of advice both on the channel about AI and tech and on this channel, I talk a great deal about what a person could do in terms of making the right decisions. But lives are very different.
One girl needs to wait and not get married, while another needs to get married. In this family they need to have children, and in that family they need to wait. Here a person should go to work right after school, there — while still at school, and here they shouldn’t go to work at all for the next five years.
Regardless of social status, but based on the energies that move so that a person has certain strengths within and develops harmoniously in terms of the world — that is the only possibility. And everything else, of course, is highly individual: each individual case has to be looked at differently.
How do you relate to it
Everything else is just hype. Okay, let’s move along with the hype. Nobody forbids a person to study something on the side, to test things, to look around. The question is how you relate to it.
About two years ago I started learning to play the piano. I set myself a certain goal. Someone will simply say: “Oh, that’s a hobby, it’s nonsense.” But I don’t know: maybe in ten years I’ll be studying at a conservatory or giving concerts. Or maybe it will end and have nothing to do with my life at all. Maybe I’ll have programs for developing musical talent or some spaces connected with music, or maybe none of that will happen. Maybe I’ll be digging the earth somewhere in the backwoods.
This is about how you relate to what you do, how well you understand the importance of a given task you are working on.
What do you prioritize: will you go to a job that pays five hundred dollars more, or to a job that is strategically right, or to a job that develops you as a person?
That’s all there is to it. Or you won’t go to work at all, because right now that is the right path for you. It isn’t easy.
Try it, nobody is stopping you
What does it mean to try one profession or another? Go ahead and try, nobody is stopping you. That is the whole point: nobody forbids anybody to do anything.
Do what you want. If you want to sleep more, sleep more; if you want to sleep less, sleep less. Nobody forbids it. Someone will tell me: “Oh, I don’t know, it’s impossible for me. If only you knew how I live.” Nobody is forbidding you to do it. If you want to live on the street, do what you want. Within what is allowed in your country and its laws, of course. Alas, we live in a world with different laws, so I can’t interpret them for you. The laws of your country are the only limitation there is.
And if you don’t even like those laws — well, that’s what people do in general. They say: “I don’t like this law,” and they go ahead and break it and end up in prison, for example, or they move to live in another country. Laws in the world today are different: in many countries they completely, radically contradict each other. Just like skin color, just like men and women differ in a huge number of their aspects.
You have the choice to get a cat tomorrow, a dog, a snake, a perch in your apartment, whatever you like. You’ll say: “The perch will die in two days.” Well, it will. But you have the choice, you have the possibility.
You have the possibility to go and live in the countryside. You can do what you want. You can not work, you can work a great deal.
My sister recently said that she would really like to do some kind of simple work. She called it simple, but she in no way meant that it is easy work. She meant something very hands-on: for example, working in a shop and making bouquets, making flowers for people, or working in a coffee shop.
I told her: “So get a job in a coffee shop on Saturdays.” If you want to make cakes, go round fifteen coffee shops and offer to bake cakes for them for free. You simply want to do it. Or for pay, for pennies. And just do it. Come in and do it. You don’t need to make a business of it, you don’t need to think about clients. You just go and do manual work. Do you want to? Then go ahead and do it. What’s the problem? Why wait, if you want to? You have the opportunity: you can calmly set aside time for it and go and do it. What’s wrong with that?
I want to tell you honestly: if I wanted to work in a coffee shop, I would go and work in a coffee shop. I don’t see any problem with that.
And not for hype, and not for Instagram. By the way, you know perfectly well that I don’t post a great deal of things on social media. Not because I hide it, but because that’s how content gets made naturally, and people see part of my content, part of my life, from different areas. I have no aim to exalt it somehow, to overexpose it, or to build a certain aspect of my development on it.
Even my team can’t manage it. They can’t even manage to show my garden. I took a hundred and fifty bulbs and planted them the day before yesterday — they can’t keep up with it. Because for me it’s simple: I did something, filmed it, moved on. Because I did it for myself.
Yesterday, when it was already getting dark, I was standing there cleaning the pool, fishing out leaves. My wife arrived. I said: “Polina, look at the flowerpot I bought for outside, in a different color, a wooden one. Here it’s light oak, and here it’s dark. I’ll put it down below so it doesn’t get chipped. I’ll plant twenty-five bulbs in it.” She looks at me and says: “What are you talking about?” And I go: “Ah, well, you’re not interested.” She really isn’t interested in which pot I’ll plant tulips in. When an armful of twenty-five tulips grows in a pot that small, she’ll of course say: “Oh, cool, beautiful. Can I cut some?” — she’ll ask, a hundred percent. And I’ll say: “Go to the shop and buy yourself some tulips.”
If you want to do it, do it. If you want to plant a thousand, plant a thousand. It’s your choice.
If you want to really understand it and do it — that’s your choice. You have that possibility.
Take me: I would like to do it in music. I have two teachers here. I recently said that I would now like to make a deal with myself and practice four hours a day for about three months. To them I’m, of course, a peculiar person. And it’s my choice. Can I practice four hours every day right now? Probably I can.
Someone will say: “You can afford it.” Everyone can afford it. Sleep less, spend less time on social media, eat less, work less, get a different job.
What do you think — that I just went and freed up four hours, and that’s it? It’s my choice whether to do it or not. And then come laziness, lack of energy, lack of possibility because of social fear or some circumstances, not understanding whether it really needs to be done, and so on. Certain limitations.
It would be easier for me to do it if my teachers lived in my city rather than teaching me remotely, online. Because for some things I need a supervisor, and for some I don’t. Some things you do on autopilot, without supervisors and without other people at all, and for some reason they really get done, and some don’t. It’s a choice.
We have a dog, it wanders around here from time to time — maybe it was visible on camera. He’s a year and a half old, and practically nobody walks him except me and one of my daughters. Luckily, we have a lot of land, and he runs around here. And in general, Russian wolfhounds are dogs inclined to sleep all day. Ninety-eight percent of the time they sleep.
Why do children go out to walk, or not? Someone will say: they weren’t taught, nobody watched over them. But that’s not so. Why did my son go outside today and practice for fifteen or twenty minutes, working on his dribbling in basketball? Because he felt like doing it. And another one sat and whined about us giving him the wrong food in the morning — because he wanted to act that way. It’s his choice. And it is no different from an adult.
We think that an adult has to be trained, or not, to walk the dog. Adults are the same — my wife didn’t walk the dog before, and she still doesn’t. I tell everyone, and nobody walks him. They look at me, say: “Mm-hmm, yes” — and keep not walking him.
But I myself am not exactly a super walker either, not the kind of person who walks all day. It’s just that I have friends who have dogs, and they walk every day for several hours, a whole three hours. For them it’s a big thing, but for me it isn’t. Do I have the possibility? Yes, of course I have the possibility. I have endless hikes and trails here, whatever you like — right over there, in the window. I can get in the car, drive a little and take a walk in town. It’s a choice.
At least stick with it for a year
So the main answer to your question about a profession is not to deceive yourself.
Keep watching the videos on my three channels. I think my three channels give a very strong opportunity to understand where you live, where you come from. If you stick with it for at least a year, watching the three channels, it will give you a very strong opportunity to perceive reality more broadly. That doesn’t mean I’m the most correct or the most right.
At least stick with that volume of videos for a year. Right now I release six to eight videos a week — call it a video a day. Watch three hundred videos over a year, and then some zone of new perception, of new consciousness, will take shape. And that, too, is your choice — what to watch and what to do.
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