The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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How do I decide if I simply have no talent in something? I had a 2.8/4( bad) gpa as a computer engineering freshman (not putting much work in), and really don't know if I should try to transfer to other majors. I enjoy reading and generally am better at language than math. I am currently taking some online courses on digital logic design and I suck, a lot. I know if I put more time on studying I would probably like it, but right now, I am just terrified I have no talent in engineering. I really want to migrate to other countries (eg Germany), and I figure engineers are in demand, but it seems that's the only reason I am still in engineering.
Sounds like you might have the talent but not the motivation? Then the question is: why? I had a 3.0 my first semester (other STEM majors), because it took me that long to realize my "don't bother studying, just absorb the material instantly" strategy from high school but wasn't going to cut it in college. Fixing that fixed the problem.
And if this is the case, then you're gold. The only thing that would worry me is if the converse is true: "if I liked it I would put more time on studying". To some extent anything remunerative is going to involve hard and/or tedious work (because otherwise many people would be happy to do it for cheap and the demand would be filled), but ideally it should be work like conscientiously brushing and flossing teeth, not work like pulling teeth.
Unless you like pulling teeth, I mean. Dentistry pays well and has great job flexibility.
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