What Do You Think About?

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Nick's dad told a great story that he had heard that I've been thinking a lot about. Here's the story....

Because of his great love for science, Henry Eyring encouraged each of his sons to major in physics as preparation for a career in science. It was while Hal was studying physics at the University of Utah that an exchange with his father marked one of those defining influences. He asked his father for help with a complex mathematical problem. “My father was at a blackboard we kept in the basement,” Elder Eyring recalls. “Suddenly he stopped. ‘Hal,’ he said, ‘we were working this same kind of problem a week ago. You don’t seem to understand it any better now than you did then. Haven’t you been working on it?’”

A little chagrined, Hal admitted he had not. “You don’t understand,” his father went on. “When you walk down the street, when you’re in the shower, when you don’t have to be thinking about anything else, isn’t this what you think about?”

“When I told him no,” Elder Eyring concludes, “my father paused. It was really a very tender and poignant moment, because I knew how much he loved me and how much he wanted me to be a scientist. Then he said, ‘Hal, I think you’d better get out of physics. You ought to find something that you love so much that when you don’t have to think about anything, that’s what you think about.’”
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I loved this story. Nick and I have talked a lot about what both of us think about when we have nothing else going on.

 When you realize what you think about that should lead you toward what you should be doing with your life.  If you're trying to force yourself to be interested in something you'll have a hard time really succeeding in that because you don't think about it!

I think this is such an important thing to teach people that are trying to figure out what to do with their lives.  It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks or what you think you "should" do, follow you heart and do what makes you happy.