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Find a subject you are most interested in and get on a path of Mastery. Focus all of your attention on it and forget everyone else. Don't think that those people know what they are doing. They don't. Once you begin to become a Master in a subject you (not your parents or people around) are most interested in, you will find people you are looking for. And they will find you. You will have plenty of things to talk about. But first, learn what Master is. Buy and read this book. Be confident. You can do more than you think you can.
