Name: 怎樣才能找到你的熱情所在？大多數人都弄錯了... 聽聽教授怎麼說 - Cal Newport 卡爾‧紐波特（中英字幕）
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Most people probably don't have a clearly identifiable passion, this is especially probably true of young people.

The imperative

where this type of thinking becomes very important.

So you tell someone who doesn't have this clear passion, oh you just gotta follow your passion.

You're setting them up, right, for failure, it's already they're gonna be really worried.

And then second, we don't have a lot of evidence that connecting a job to a pre-existing interest plays a big role in whether or not you get deep satisfaction out of that job.

on what leads people to actually feel sort of motivation towards their job, what leads them to be satisfied.

And it turns out that the traits have very little to do with this intrinsic match, it has more to do with things like impact.

mastery, connection with people, doing something worthwhile.

If you get these generic traits, you tend to enjoy your job more and more.

In fact, the research shows that if you can take a group of people who all had the same job and then they interview them to try to understand how they felt about it.

on what separated someone from feeling like the job was a calling versus just a job was how long they'd been doing it.

If you interview someone who really loves what they're doing, they probably started without a clear cut vision that this is what I'm meant to do, but what they did commit to was getting very good.

becoming very impactful, building mastery, and that for these 8/10 cases, the passion follows the mastery.

could take something that intrinsically they have zero interest or maybe even negative interest and simply by getting good that they will develop passion for it.

And do you think there's anything automatic in there about mastery equals passion in a sort of one-to-one way.

It's just not necessarily going to be anything.

that feels like it could one day be a passion.

Yeah, the the latter is the right way to think about it.

So we have to lower the bar from this impossible height where we put it, which is you have a one true passion and if you figure it out.

you're gonna love your work starting the next day.

and if you get it wrong, you're destined for a life of misery.

there are many different things upon which you could build a life of real fulfillment and passion.

I mean it has to be something that you have an interest in, it has to be something that you think would reward you with more flexibility and options as you got better at it, right.

But most people could probably pretty quickly identify six or seven directions that pass those qualifiers.

And so a lot of what I'm saying is that's enough.

I like this, maybe it matches some of my skills, I like the options of it open up if I did it well, it seems to resonate in some sort of ill-defined or ambiguous way.

That's all enough for something to be the foundation of a passionate career.

And there's probably a lot of things that that pass that criterion, that's okay.

Let's say you're new to the job market, you're right out of school, you want to be passionate about what you do.

By far probably the most important thing you can do, the most important step you can take if you want to maximize the probability that you have a fantastic working life.

is put your head down and go into apprentice mode.

Good things that include real satisfaction and passion for your work.