I’m now in my mid 40s. I remember being in my late 20s thinking I knew so much. I did know enough to realize what I didn’t know. I just didn’t know what that was. It was the why.
For a long while now I have stated that science [communication] was a driving force for me. It was my why. It didn’t sit right with me though. It felt empty not to mention entirely out of reach. Still, I like to share knowledge of what I know so that someone else might benefit. That’s when I found my real “why?”
I love to share knowledge. It could be about editing a video and optimizing the bitrate. It could be about how uranium decays in such a way that it was used to determine the age of the Earth. I can tell you that a certain weather pattern is conducive to severe weather. I know those things enough to explain them because I learned them in a quest for knowing how the world works.
Find your “Why?” and get ready to do some hard work.
I am at a point in my life where I can start to really carve my way into the “why” and hopefully end up a better person for myself, my family, and my friends. Things change, we all change. It’s the nature of things. Months or years from now my trajectory might change but my drive to share knowledge won’t. I’ve always had it and I always will.