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focus on the chosen ones. It saves you from hopping from here to there to there with no clear goal and also saves you time you’d have spent at the side-lines just watching instead of getting in the game. Express your needs, seek out the right support to maximize your potential.
When it comes to self-discovery, one ingredient that is very essential is courage and audacity. Yeah. Apparently, it takes a lot of courage to discover yourself. Logically it looks ironic, but anyone who took this road can attest to this. You will need to be bold enough to step out of your comfort zones and do things you haven’t done before. In high school and before that, you didn’t have to leave your comfort zone so much because usually there was nowhere else to go to, or the path was just trodden by everyone, so there was really nothing like new territory to explore on your own. In campus, and later in life, you have to do things alone, and without being compelled. That takes courage, and it is what leads to self-discovery. A sheep can never discover itself while in the herd, under the control of the shepherd.
While it may be a bit disquieting that self-discovery isn’t a straightforward process, it need not bother you much. There are constructive things you can be doing in the meantime which the older you will be happy that the younger you did. If I may borrow from the book Ikigai by Sebastian Marshal, here’s a set of general advice:
 Start to study and develop your own ethical system.
 Make good friends, advisors and mentors who are strong and decent people. Campus is a very ripe place for this.
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