My dad used to have a saying which same advice. He said you should be able to do something better than anyone else in the world. For him it was drop kicking the art of kicking a football through a field goal through the goal posts, an art that had been lost and replaced by place kicking. And I don't think drop kicking is necessarily what you should vote yourself to or some similar arcane art. But the idea that you should look for something where you can createyou can excuse me, where you can contribute something unique or close to it is very powerful.
Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. His advice includes how to have a deep conversation, why it's better to control time than money--and whether, in the end, we should give advice in the first place. Other topics of discussion include the right object of our aspirations, the reason for optimism when it comes to technology, and why Kelly is not worried about AI.