Can You Become Anything You Want to Be? How Not to Spend Years Following Someone Else's Path — original Russian video by Alexander Volchek

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Can You Become Anything You Want to Be? How Not to Spend Years Following Someone Else's Path

Alexander Volchek

Today, especially in the age of artificial intelligence, people are constantly told they can master any profession and become anything they want to be. But is that really true? How can you understand which activities you have the actual abilities and opportunities to pursue, and which direction is merely a social illusion? And what should you do if you realize that the career path you have chosen is not right for you?

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The main question

How can you understand which activities you have the actual abilities and opportunities to pursue, and which direction is merely a social illusion?

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  • 00:39

    These days you cannot explain to people that someone cannot become anything they want to be, no matter what they say, because people are used to living in the social world.

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  • 01:00

    Start with this: why was someone born into this particular family?

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  • 01:20

    They act as though they are clever without understanding that all of this follows patterns they do not control.

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  • 01:27

    Patterns we can control usually come down to things like this: for this sheet to go up, I have to lift it.

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  • 01:36

    What I will say during today's filming is something I do not control, because I have not written a script.

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  • 05:14

    Of course, developing this way of thinking and paying attention to it takes work. It is a major task.

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  • 05:31

    People are constantly thinking about their own desires, about becoming anything they want to be, and about what they want to get.

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  • 06:15

    Nor do you do it only for yourself, because someone has given you the “right” assignment.

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  • 06:27

    Whether it makes things better or worse for the other person does not matter at all.

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  • 09:10

    The ego-computer and ego-systems have penetrated everywhere imaginable and unimaginable.

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  • For readers interested in: Love, help, and rescuing others, Spiritual development and the spiritual path, Spiritual traps and risks
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