This is my advice to the 20-something trying to figure out their first job. To that middle aged person considering school and a career change. To the grandparent who wants to write their first novel. To myself.
Do the thing that most excites you and most terrifies you. That’s it. That’s the sweet spot. Do it because it’s calling to you, especially if you’re afraid. That fear is the tell. It’s your Spidey-sense that this thing is so right for you that to fail at it would leave you devastated and embarrassed.
That’s exactly where you want to be. Go do that thing.