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Someone said "Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do." Opinion?

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Fishes71 · 51-55, M

Let's use careers as an example. Rarely does a job entail what we think it does before we try it for ourselves. If you try a career path and discover its not the job for you, then you've learned something valuable. Perhaps a summer working with a lawyer will save you from years of law school before you discover the hard way that law makes you miserable.

Encontrados · 46-50, M

I try to learn at least one new thing everyday even if I find it extremely boring. I'm full of useless fact's lol

KingofPizza2 · 36-40, M

Well, statistically speaking even the most active among us will not do far more things than we will do. So finding out one thing we don't want to do is, on its own, less valuable than finding a thing we do want to.

However, sometimes there are things that seem appealing and/or we are told we should be doing. THOSE are the things it is really valuable to find out we don't want to do.

Zaphod42 · 46-50, M

The more you rule out, the easier your choices...makes sense to me.

Unlearn · 41-45, M

It opens up to other possibilities...

MrAboo · 36-40, M

I think that’s a wise saying. I’d never want to work for the law or be a teacher. Why I would I try those careers out if I don’t want to do them at face value?

Spartan1 · 46-50, M

I never had to learn that per se. Go thru things I didn't want ...yes. But learn no. I already knew

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

I think it's true. Some things are not worth doing no matter what.

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