Do we have our own Captain Jack Sparrow compass?

Tyler Donahue
3 min readOct 31, 2019
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

In The Pirates of the Caribbean, there is a special compass.

A compass that points in the direction of what you want most in the world.

The idea of this compass fascinates me. Maybe because I have always struggled with knowing which path to take. Which career do I choose? What friends do I choose to spend time with? Where do I live? Where do I spend my free time?

There are so many fucking options today it’s absurd. It’s equally incredible and debilitating at the same time.

If there was a way to measure decision-making anxiety, I’m confident we would be at an all-time high.

Maybe it would look something like this:

(Amount of potential career paths x amount of shit you can buy online x locations available to live x online communities to be a part of x amount of potential hobbies available to pick up = amount of decision-making anxiety measured in total time spent making decisions)

Side note: Did you know its a hobby for people to listen to others eat food with a sensitive microphone. WTF! Better yet… we live in a world where you can post videos of yourself eating food and make it your career.

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Tyler Donahue

Writer @TheHustle @thriveglobal | Founder @th3kindproject @essentialblankets