In the beginning - what did u do?

In the beginning - You?

When you were young and ignorant, there wasn't much information to understand, so you mostly had unconstrained inputs from the external world introduced into your thought patterns,  but as you get older, you should start to filter through this variety for hopeful usefulness, in order to start making better decisions.

You create mental concepts in your mind about what is important and what is not, and then these concepts shape your future perceptions by using the already-selected knowledge to further select knowledge.  

The key is to find a reliable way to filter this input data! This is your evolving thought chain with development to use or control your thoughts and actions!

This entire process is mostly intuitive, and is updating can be either pain/pleasure, which tells your body that a certain perception with your corresponding reaction should either be reinforced or not.

 But some forms of experience on the pain/pleasure axis like surprise and we can be used to intentionally tell your mind that something unexpected was experienced, too, encouraging you to consciously readjust the conceptual model.

Whether you are learning to play a sport or simply trying to create a more accurate mental model of reality in your mind, you are working with a variety of experiences, and within those experiences, you have to choose and reinforce the ones that are the most useful to you.

In this way, everything that you do is essentially an experiment that gets refined and corrected with experience and practice.  Yet there is a higher and better way to live your life!

The difference between you and, say, a professional people is almost certain that they have a genome that makes them more suitable to play their sport or activity,  or even more importantly, they have intuitive knowledge embedded in their brain from all of the predictive experience they have refined in their life.  This becomes a general sense for what works and what doesn’t.
{i.e. based upon Experience }

The same can be said for many great artists and scientists, entrepreneurs and investors, or many otherwise everyday folks who do what they do well.

Our brain is a prediction engine that builds knowledge and generally gets smarter as it better aligns what it needs to meet the demands of the existing environment.  Most often it is a building block of knowledge and experience which tend to help mold people's lives! 

What you do with your life is based totally upon the who, what and when you respond to the suppositions and occurrences that develop in your life!  We will not be able to stand before the Judge Bar of God in the last day and claim ignorance or blame someone else!  

Learn to seek the truth and allow it to guide you to the Whole Truth of the gospel of Christ which gives us all the material and ways to live a moral and then Blessed Existence!  Seek the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness - then all the other things in your life will be taken care of!