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All right, we have a question. My son just turned 22. What advice would you give him? So, firstly, I don't give advice to people who are not asking for it or not interested in it. So, I probably wouldn't sort of force my advice down your 22-year-old son's throat. But, if a 22-year-old dude were to come up to me and sort of just ask for general life advice, I would say that when you are 22, you don't

have a lot of experience in many things. You probably did something at university. Maybe you had some hobbies and passion projects and maybe some side hustles you did while you were in school, but you have a fairly narrow range of stuff that you've tried out. So when you're 22, like 22 to 25, just like try loads of things. Try out a bunch of internships. Like try working for a small business. Do random hobbies and side hustles

and side projects. Try your hand at learning the skills as to how to actually make money independently on the internet. Make sure you are creating more than you are consuming. Creating does not have to mean creating content. It can mean any form of making stuff and putting it out into the world. There's a great essay by Paul Graham around how to find work you love. And one of his commandments or one of his sort of guiding

principles is always be producing. The people who stumble into interesting careers and finding the work that they love, they tend to be producing a lot of stuff. And most 22-year-olds that I know these days tend to consume a lot of stuff. You look at your screen time and you're probably spending 10 hours a day consuming content that other people have created. So shift away from being a consumer more towards being a creator. And by trying enough

things, you'll eventually find that thing where you're like, "Oh, actually, I enjoyed that thing more than the others, or I found that thing more energizing than the other stuff." And then once you narrow that down, you can figure out, "Okay, cool. maybe that's the kind of career I want within that kind of general genre. And to be honest, you know, the whole like follow your passion thing. It's like, well, firstly, you find what you're interested in,

then you find what you're good at, and then you work on those things to get really good at the thing. Because even if you're doing something you're passionate about, it's going to start to feel like work after a while. And quite a lot of it in any industry. If you try being a YouTuber, you realize it's actually quite a lot of work. And a lot of that work is not enjoyable. And so, there's got to be

something other than I just find it fun to sort of motivate you to continue going. And this is where sort of improving at the skill of doing the thing also really helps. So as a 22-year-old, I would encourage you to experiment with lots of different things. Find the thing that, as Nal Rabbit says, feels like play to you, but it looks like work to other people. And generally, you can land on a pretty good career within

that field if you learn the right sorts of skills. Enjoy.