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There is no formula for finding your path: you have to start walking it to discover whether it is truly right for you

We often wait for complete clarity before taking the first step. We want to know whether a career will fulfill us, whether we have the necessary abilities, or whether a decision will lead us in the right direction. However, some answers only emerge when we stop imagining the path and begin to walk it.

Óscar Martínez is a Salvadoran journalist, editor-in-chief of *El Faro*, winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, and author of *Bukele, el rey desnudo*. Throughout his career, he has investigated migration, violence, organized crime, and political power, facing serious risks for exposing uncomfortable truths and defending press freedom.

His own career has been built through action: entering difficult environments, asking questions, pursuing stories, and making decisions without always knowing their consequences in advance. Drawing on that experience, Martínez reminds us that a vocation does not always appear as an immediate certainty. It is often discovered by trying, doing, and paying attention to what we learn as we move forward.

Walking a path allows us to discover whether we enjoy what we are doing, whether we are willing to face its obstacles, and whether we have the skills required to continue. It may also reveal that we need to change direction or that, somewhere along the journey, another path is better aligned with who we are and what we hope to contribute.

Starting does not mean committing forever to a single direction. It means giving ourselves the opportunity to discover, through experience, what our true path might be..

💥 SparkLab Skill in Action: Initiative — taking the first step, learning through action, and using each experience to discover, adjust, and build a path of our own.