Bill Gates and Sundar Pichai agree on what one way to choose a successful career

The internet is full of all sorts of success stories and personal experiences of all these multimillionaires in the world on how they managed to (in fact) own (actually) almost 90% of the planet’s wealth. Mark Zuckerberg, Arianna Huffington, τον Bill Gates, Jack Ma, are just some of these names.

Most likely we will never be able to become very rich from the career choice we will make. It never hurt anyone, however, to dream and try to make the right moves to reach his goal.

All successful entrepreneurial stories have a common starting point: They do not have a common starting point. The people you admire have taken very different paths to success. THE Jeff Bezos Before Amazon had a full career in finance, Bill Gates started making money making software while still a student, Mark Zuckerberg started a Facebook student room and eventually dropped out to pursue a full-time career.

What Gates and Google CEO Sundar Pichai agree on

There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for success. As inc.com explains, this means that the business giants agree on the same advice as to how one will get to the launch.

The CEO of her parent company Google, Alphabet, Sundar Pichai in a recent interview with the BBC, tried to outline the “correct answer”. They asked him what advice he would give to someone who starts from the bottom and wants to reach a big goal. “I always felt that, more than your mind says, you have to understand what excites your heart. It’s a journey and you will understand it when you find it. “If you find it, things will probably go well,” Pichai said.

Bill Gates was asked about this by Harvard students a few years ago: “How do you choose the right career path when you are not sure what you want to do in your life?”, They had asked him. Gates’s answer was somewhat ambiguous. “What you are likely to be world-class in is what you were obsessed with from the age of 12 to 18,” the tycoon replied.

The truth is that in our childhood we wanted to become something between astronauts, physicists, and doctors. Many probably did. The vast majority, however, are still just struggling to make ends meet. Gates sees childhood obsessions as a “window” into your true passions. After all, he started working on computers at a very young age – and that was what eventually made him a billionaire.

There is a problem with this logic however. And here all successful entrepreneurs agree. Blindly pursuing your passion in a field for which you lack talent is a bad idea. But the same goes for ignoring your strengths and interests and just trying to be what you imagine people (or your parents) want you to be.

According to moguls, the first step in choosing the right career is clear self-awareness. Before you can make a big dive in the world, you need to know who you really are, what you like and what you are good at.