When I was building Learning Monk, a platform to make people skilled, I got an idea: people should start learning things from their early days itself.
If I talk about myself, I started building things from 12th class. I got an early advantage because I started experimenting early. I started working with AI and ML back in 2012. Again, I kept upskilling myself enough that I could switch anywhere. I also transformed WakeupCoders.
All of this happened simply because I started early and stayed with things for a long term.
Honestly speaking, passion, hobbies, “what I like,” “what I want to do” — these things are just nonsense in the early stages.
How does a child know what they like and what they don't like?
They don't.
They get influenced by their environment, the people around them, what they see, and what they experience. And eventually, we start deciding what we like.
We are living in a world where a doctor can learn coding and build technology, and a coding engineer can build some of the best healthcare systems. No one has said that you can't do that.
So instead of spending your college days constantly thinking about what you like or endlessly trying to explore different things, just pick one.
Whatever you are getting nearby, whatever opportunity comes to you — just explore it deeply.
You start enjoying the things.
In the initial days, I never used to like banking or healthcare or anything related to those industries. But now look at me — I am coding for banking and healthcare itself.
Fintech has become my specialization.
And now, I enjoy it even more than coding.
Why did that happen?
Simply because I got pushed to do the same thing for the long term.
It didn't matter whether it was my passion in the beginning.
The brain works like that.
If you keep pushing yourself into something and continue doing it for the long term, you eventually start understanding it, getting better at it, gaining experience, and sometimes you even start loving it.
You become really good at something simply because you stayed with it long enough.
So maybe the question isn't always:
“What do I love?”
Maybe the better question is:
“What can I keep doing for a long time?”