How Can We Determine What to Do With Our Lives

# How Can We Determine What to Do With Our Lives? ## Details ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) - Author: - Full Title: How Can We Determine What to Do With Our Lives? - Category: articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/f3adee589475 ## Highlights - All we can ever do is make a reasonable assessment and commit to doing our best in each moment. We can do research, to reduce the size of the unknown, and talk to trusted people, friends, counselors. We can be patient with ourselves and treat each moment as an opportunity to learn, not a test we will be graded on. We can’t control much of what happens around us. But how we respond to what happens is what determines who we are. loc. - Tags: # - And most of those thoughts are about us as characters in a story that we ourselves write. How we think about one moment determines how we live the next. Our imagination can be our greatest gift or obstacle. And if we see ourselves as a character in a story, then we only perceive what the story allows. In order to truly understand the meaning of the story, we must step out of it. loc. - Such moments can be the clues to discern a career path. Or if you have to face some challenge, like a job interview or presentation, try the following: Imagine and hold in mind the person you will be with. Remember this person is not much different from yourself. He or she has gone through moments, like this one, just like you. Picture him or her. He has been interviewed, just like you. She has had to face unknowns, just like you. Notice the sensations in your body as you imagine the situation, and where those sensations arise. Then take a deep breath in, and as you breathe out let go of the sensations and return to noticing where you are, now. loc.