Between "What You Can Do" and "What You Want to Do"

When working, I occasionally meet people who say they only want to do "what they want to do."
I think if you could only do what you want to do within the scope of what you are capable of, you could work without stress.
But is that really okay?

Between "What You Can Do" and "What You Want to Do"

For many people, what they "can do" and what they "want to do" do not necessarily align.
Regarding work, most people might be doing it because they "have to."
In the first place, you cannot make a job out of something you "cannot do," so you either have to turn what you can already do into a job, or increase what you can do after you start working.

A time to increase what you can do

When you start something, you will first aim to steadily increase what you "can do." Within this, becoming able to do "what is required" of you means gaining experience and learning the job.

However, even if your "can do" list grows, it does not necessarily mean that those things have become "what you want to do."
Even so, when you are young, I believe it is important not to deliberately define "what you want to do" too strictly, but rather to respond to "what is required" and steadily increase "what you can do."

The next step

At first, by working desperately toward the largest circle, "what is required," your circle of "what you can do" will gradually grow.
Eventually, I think you will be able to feel the size of your "can do" circle more than the initial "required" circle.

In this process, there may be areas where, even if required, you simply cannot do them (and have to admit they are not for you), so the "can do" circle might become somewhat distorted.

Even so,making the area of the circle as large as possible is proof of self-growth, both in terms of work and your own humanity.

Within that, among the things you have become able to do, I am sure you will find things that make you think,

I enjoy doing this!

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It is not necessarily the case that "fun things" are included in your "can do" list from the start.
The image is that by gradually expanding what you "can do," you will find "fun things" within it.

Three circles aiming for growth

What society callsa "calling"is a state where these

"what is required," "what you can do," and "what is fun"

overlap as much as possible within a large circle.

If you only aim for "what is fun" or "what you want to do" from the beginning, I think you will be far from reaching that state.

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