Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
One of the things we've talked about here is the advantages pop culture knowledge provides to people in their jobs. I've decided it's worth taking some time just to explore why it's useful. Or in short, all that knowledge in your head about video games, manga, movies, and sports is probably a lot more useful than you realized.
Let's see how you can apply it, and the first thing is . . .
You know what succeeded and what has failed.
I'm not a big fan of fame for fame's sake. Fame is vastly overrated if you ask me – and if you don't want to ask me, spend ten minutes online searching for celebrity meltdowns, famous scandals, and the like. You'll quickly realize fame really is kind of overrated, and is too often transformed into infamy.
On the other hand, fame is a very useful tool – if you pursue it with the intent of actually using it. Being known gets you jobs, gets you contracts, gets you roles, and so on. Fame as a tool, where you are it's master not the other way around is quite useful.
So frankly, you're going to have to confront the issue of fame in your life and career – can you use it, how do you want to use it, how do you get the right kind, etc.
You're considering relocation like so many people do. You've got a lot of research to do on ideal cities, states, provinces, countries, and what have you. You're busy understanding the economics of areas, job opportunities, cultural benefits . . . and then as you do your research you find a very hard truth about your plans to move elsewhere.
Relocation may well take you to a place in the world that will outright kill you.