To find what you're truly obsessed with, you should look back at your childhood interests and not dismiss them as trivial or childish.
The speakers discuss how childhood obsessions and interests, like strategy games or treasure hunts, can reveal what you're naturally drawn to and should pursue as an adult. ✦ AI generated
Shaan Puri · My First Million · 2026-08-12 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 27:46
“How do you find something that you're obsessed about? Or even can you become obsessed?”
Look into your childhood. If you read about people who suggest how to do this, a lot of the times they say look into your childhood or pay attention to what you did in your free time. Rather it's your free time as an adult, but as adults our free time sort of shrinks in smaller and smaller segments. And you know, you fill your free time with errands or things you should do. But when you're a kid, you don't really think about what you should do. You just simply think about what you want to do. And so, when you're a kid, you get obsessed with different things. You go into these different rabbit holes and these different phases, and then you grow out of them. But they often have like similarities.
verbatim transcript · starts at 27:46
27:46>> Yeah, that's what Robert Greene says. Yeah, so if you read about people who suggest how to do this, a lot of the times they say look into your childhood or pay attention to what you did in your free time. Rather it's your free time as an adult, but as adults our free time sort of shrinks in smaller and smaller segments. And you know, you fill your
28:02free time with errands or things you should do. But when you're a kid, you don't really think about what you should do. You just simply think about what you want to do. And so, when you're a kid, you get obsessed with different things. You go into these different rabbit holes and these different phases, and then you grow out of them. But they often have like similarities. So, you know, I got
28:18obsessed with one video game. But then I would grow out of that, but then I got obsessed with online poker. And online poker has a lot of similarities to that video game, if you think about it, but I didn't consider online poker to be a video game. And I got obsessed with business, and now I'm sort of obsessed with investing. And they're all the same through line, right? Of It's sort of
28:35this game. There's points, whether the points are called stars or points or money or ROI, whatever it is, right? Like, IRR, it's it's a different scoreboard, but it's the same idea. And there's a competitive competitors, there's strategy, and it's hard to win, but it's fun to win, and like you got to trial and error and try to figure it out. So like I like strategy games, and
- ·Childhood interests reveal what you naturally drawn to
- ·As adults, free time shrinks and fills with obligations
- ·Kids pursue what they want, not what they should do
- ·Childhood rabbit holes share hidden similarities worth exploring
- ·Adults fill free time with errands and obligations
- ·Kids simply follow what they want to do
- ·This leads to deep obsessions and rabbit holes