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You'll only find out what you enjoy doing by trying it. That means just giving everything a go at least once rather than trying to imagine what you will or won't like. In my teens and early twenties I hated the thought of water sports. "Cold water and exercise? Are you mad?" It took until my late twenties to properly try these things and I fell in love with them.

Getting passionate about something is weird. You can't make yourself do it. You can only discover it. The only way to discover something is to get off the sofa and go looking for it.

Edit: and for what it's worth, I found "computer science" as taught at university the most boring subject known to man-kind. For a lot of university courses, it's the antithesis of "hacking". I love making things and software presents us all with a creative canvas where the only really hard limits are our imaginations and in some cases, access to raw data. I dropped out of university after 2 years yet here I am nearly 12 years later at the peak of my game thus far and I enjoy the fact I still have a lot to learn and the field still has seemingly endless challenges to tackle.



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