What To Do With Your Life

ive wasted my entire life and i dont know how to not

11 years later, and still valid. I mean about the stupod face... :-) JUST KIDDING, I mean about your point in the video.

This is still very good advice, but I'm glad to see that the Green brothers have gotten much better at sharing their love with each other. Yay for growth! 😊❤🎉

I think I'll always come back to this🫶

Baby John!!!! 😃

summary: narrow down?!

What should I do with my life? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

The algorithm recommended this video to me today. I needed it. Can john answer this question again today i think that would be awesome :)

This is still one the most important videos of my life.

The algorithm brought me to this old video, but I really needed it right now!

Wow I didn’t even know this video is from 2012 before looking at the date. The editing is same as in 2023, that feels weird

funny enough i get this video 11 years after its making, right as im about to obtain my phd in astrophysics... quite odd

I was pre Med who wound up becoming a software engineer so here we are 😂

Nothing

My mind space is at peace✌☮😌

"surround yourself with people you like". Well.....

I don’t want to go to school tho.. it scares me.. it’s boring to me.. it makes me depressed

"One note for the rest of you life". me immediately picks Bb "oh now I get it!"

I love watching the bit at the end with john avoiding admitting he loves hank, after having watched the recent esther day video

This didnt help. I know i dont need to have 1 job for the rest of my life. But i keep failing every single job i try and im getting very discouraged

There's this quote from one of my favorites books ever which says something like "there's no right way to live, all we can do is choose a path and run and run and see how far we can make it". I found it in a time where i was really lost about what to do with my life, which would be the right choice for me, and it has really helped me a lot. We may not know which path is the right one, and we may make the wrong choice, and we might change it completely halfway throught, but what matters is to keep going forward, find how far you can make it and that's enough.

"Hank, you have a stupid face." 😂 This such a great dis, because little kid/siblings do say stuff like this AND because your face, John, is very similar to Hank's. So really you are insulting your brother and yourself. 🤣

Great advice, but unfortunately picking the right people to do things with isn't always that easy actually. At 47, I am having many regrets, because my picker hasn't always been great. So I would also say get a good mental health therapist as soon as you can afford it. Overall, I wish I'd found this community years ago instead only the last couple. Likely would have had a big impact on me over time. Nerdfighters are definitely my people.

john, john, john. i love you john.

indian springs rocks :)

John needs to do a good morning hank reflection to this video 10 years later

10 years later and you're still doing this. I hope you look back and enjoy your time doing this. I recently found you and enjoy your time spent human. I'm still trying to figure it out and my time is passing and I'm not happy w what I've done w some of it. side gig of yours is awesome.

Brutal.

"If you don't make decisions, the options still narrow"
-I'm 10 years late, but that's a succinct way of saying what I've always thought.

every time I feel lost in life I watch this

one thing that bothered me about adult life is that employers will only ever pay me my maximum hourly rate for things that I've been doing for more than 10 years... so all the effort I put into learning skills on the side, even things that mesh well with my core skills, all that effort seemed wasted. but there's a lesson in there as well: your options will be narrow if you try to maximize the short term result. You have to be willing to accept less of a good short term outcome if you want your activities to be more varied.

I wish I heard this advice 10 years ago. I definitely needed to hear it today.

Watched 2 videos just now and I like your way of thinking. You have gained a subscriber!

Very good and encouraging advice, but there's one important caveat - no matter what, you need to make money. There's a chance you'll be miserable whether you make $50k or $100k, but chances are, you'll be more miserable with $50k.

Why did this pop up to me in 2023 almost 2 months after my daughter was born?

A little freaked out right now, this video showed up on my feed 10 years after I originally watched it. How do the algorithm gods know so much????

Bb. Bb is my answer

Thank you, Mr. John Green.

NGL this just made me feel more Anxious 😅

Surround yourself with people you like, and make cool stuff with them.

"surround yourself with people you like and make cool stuff with them" I don't like to surround myself with people fact i like online stuff better is there a job where I don't need to talk to people

My experience is that your options don't narrow nearly as much as you might fear. I mean, yes, choosing a major like medicine or the law will definitely push very strongly in a particular direction, but I majored in Spanish (plus History; it's complicated) then I spent most of my career in IT. Despite spending most of my career in IT, a big chunk of that was in teaching it to other people. Despite spending so much time teaching technology and working with it, I've spent the past 10 years doing so in social services and more particularly putting those skills toward ending homelessness. Also, I specifically chose a non-teaching degree while attending a teacher-prep-focused college, and still ended up in the classroom and writing curriculum. My mom got a teaching degree, then spent multiple decades raising children, and then went whole hog into the workforce. My dad did a number of different things in his career, from teaching, to self-employment, to chemistry, to eventually ending up as a computer-aided draftsman, which was kind of his first love. And back to me again, my first major was Business Administration which I stopped because accounting was boring, and now, after spending multiple decades working for other people, I'm running my own business, doing my own bookkeeping, etc. Almost none of the choices you make are unchangeable. And while you can't go back and run a different path, you absolutely can choose a different path from where you are at any given moment. And head back to your original path again later if you wish. But if the question is "what do I do with my life?" my advice is whatever else you do, choose something you think you will enjoy. And don't be afraid to change course.

Thank you very much John Green for this advice. I am going to university and facing many decisions. The fact that my option still narrows seems obvious but so enlightening. Wish you and eveyone a good day!

This doesnt help. It doesnt help anyone.

Watching this about a decade later really struck me. I am 20 years old... I was like 10 when this video was released...! But it's so true. Like I still feel the pressure to figure my life out and pick a major for collage. But My plans have changed so much that I can't entirely blame myself for not knowing what to do. Most people that I've met in collage also have things in their lives that even they don't know what to do with. But I hope whatever I do will impact those around me and make the world a better place, and no matter what you do: you can always chose to be a good human. So I'll star there:)

Coming back to this video again :)

wooow man iam studying Computer science at the moment and iam failing in every thing at the university but this vidoe really made me little less nervous about the fact that you said its not nesserly to be what you studied you can be two things

Christ, this was 10 years ago.
Good message tho

I definitely needed to hear this