What Did You Want To Be At Age 10? The Question That Reconnects You To Your Purpose (Personal Development Wisdom Snippets) | #637

[Agi Keramidas]
Welcome to Personal Development Mastery Podcast. This is another snippet of wisdom, a moment from the podcast archive that I felt deserved to be heard again.

[Rob Wentz]
I love this question. I ask it to everybody because it's like the most fun question. So I'll ask it to you, Agi.

I'm curious what your answer is. What did you want to be? What did you want to do when you were 10 years old?

And it can be like, it can be anywhere from 8 to 12 years old, really. But is there something in particular that you wanted to do at that point in time with your life?

[Agi Keramidas]
Regardless of the age, if I don't stick with 8 to 12 and go further down in my, you know, teenage year, like I was 15, for example.

[Rob Wentz]
Yeah.

[Agi Keramidas]
Acting was much more something that I felt drawn into.

[Rob Wentz]
What was it about acting that you, why did you want to do that?

[Agi Keramidas]
Playing a role, I suppose. And that is an answer that at that time it didn't come, but it has come since then. I'm reflecting on it.

I suppose also being visible and, you know, expressing yourself, things like that, which at some point I discovered that by doing the podcast, to a large extent, I'm sure I'm not on a, on a stage, on a theater stage, but I am on a stage speaking and performing in a way. So thank you for the question.

[Rob Wentz]
Sure. Sure. Yeah.

And the point of the question is, you know, we don't always end up being the thing we wanted to be when we were a kid, but there's an essence of what we wanted to do that speaks to what we're doing now, which like you just said, acting into the podcast, also playing a role, wanting to be somebody. And I think as far as actors too, it's like, number one, of course, there's like the adulation of like, I'm an actor, but there's also, you're making a difference. Like you're playing a role.

That's going to make a difference in somebody's life. Whenever they watch you, right. You're going to leave an impact on somebody.

And you get to, especially when we're a kid, we want to be somebody of, at least I did be somebody of notoriety. So we could go into that for a while and figure that out. Right.

But the whole point is there's something to like 10 years old and around that age, you can go into like, you know, 14, 15 years old. You were young enough that you just liked something and you didn't need a reason to like it. You didn't need anybody to tell you to like it.

It was like, I just love this thing, but you were, you were old enough to just like it, but you were young enough that the world hadn't beaten it out of you yet. The world hadn't convinced you otherwise and influenced you. Right.

So it's just naturally, you just like that thing. So if you look at that thing as a good example, I had a woman one time that I was talking to, she, when she was 10, she wanted to be a paleontologist. So she wanted to dig up dinosaur bones and discover them.

Right. And so we were talking about that. And so she had become a, some sort of holistic nutritionist coach, something along those lines.

And, um, I was like, so what was it about being a paleontologist that you love? And she said, well, it was like, it was like a mystery. Like I was uncovering these mysteries and I was like revealing these secrets.

And I was digging through all of this history, this dirt, like the dirt was history to find to unearth these hidden things. And so it was like, well, that's what you're doing now for people. Like you're digging through their history to bring up something that they need to help them move forward.

Right. And to understand the past, we can understand the future better when we understand the past. And I just, that's one of my favorite examples.

Cause it literally was like digging up a mystery and solving something that was lost. And so many times, uh, so for her, that's what she did as a job. That's what she did.

That was her career, not a paleontologist, but helping people figure out their nutrition, figuring out their life and helping them move forward by, uh, unearthing the past. And so I just, I love that question because number one, it's fun to think about if you, like, if you gave it more time, I'm sure more would come up. Uh, but if you go back, it's kind of fun just to think about when you were that age, because I remember when I was that age, I wanted to be a professional wrestler and I wanted to be a radio DJ, right?

There was two things I wanted to be the most and the professional, professional wrestler didn't play out, but there was elements of that that I loved, uh, entertaining being physical, um, like being physical, but also still playing. Cause I love play. Uh, and then also the radio DJ part, like you were saying, like playing a role, being somebody.

And I didn't know how to be myself. So like radio is like a way to turn up myself. And like, I get to be, I get to be who I am.

I'm allowed to be who I am on the radio because I have permission. Uh, and that really helped me to understand why I was in radio for so long and the things that it helped me with. And so I just, that's the question I love asking because it is always fun.

It's always interesting. There's always laughter that comes with it. Sometimes there's sadness that comes along with it, but there's always a story.

And there's always things almost every time I talk about that with somebody and we spend time digging into it, they'll have an aha moment of like, Oh yeah, like I'm doing this job right now, but I'm leaving out these elements that I love. And so with you, right? Um, with anybody, say a podcast, right?

Cause so many people want to do a podcast or have one because it's, it's, it's meeting a need that they're not getting met throughout their job, whatever that might be. Uh, and podcasting is a great way to do that. But for many people, there's like small little tweaks you can make, things you can add in to what you're doing now that will make you feel more satisfied and fulfilled.

And it could be just a hobby or it could be an actual part of your job that you include. And so that's, I, that question, when somebody asked me that question, I was, I just, I loved it. I was like, that's such a good question.

It was so much fun to talk about. I started asking other people and they get always, I always get great responses. People get lit up by it.

They're like, Oh yeah, here's what I wanted to do. And you get to talk about, you know, just that part of their life. And, uh, it's just, it's a fun question all around and you can learn a lot.

[Agi Keramidas]
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