The easiest thing to be fooled by in this era is thinking that choosing the right major means choosing the right life. In reality, the truth is this: your major is basically useless. College is losing value, and stable career paths are disappearing. If you’re still agonizing over “what to study to be more secure,” you’re essentially using an industrial-era map to find your way into the future—and you’re going to get lost.

What truly determines whether you can live well has never been what you studied. It’s whether you have these things: the ability to keep learning, the ability to solve real problems, the drive to dare to try and to pivot, and a body and mindset that won’t break. Without them, no matter how good your major is, you’re just swapping to a more respectable factory line. With them, you can make it through whatever you do—and even live quite well.