Name: Stop Trying to "Find Your Passion" - College Info Geek
Uploaded: 2017-09-12T08:46:15.000Z
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"And go after it to
the ends of the earth."

This word, passion,
  it keeps cropping up

No longer shall we be
 relegated to the work

of previous generation's
tedious, boring,

factory work that our
 parents did before us.

You can go make super
 hero capes for dogs

It build its foundations
off of its assumptions

It's like we're all
 onions and all you've

to tell you what the
  heck my passion is.

And this is the problem
that most people face.

Either they don't have
 anything in their life

that they can identify
 as a real passion

or there's a lot of
   things all over the place.

for students or people
 who don't really have

a whole lot of experience
   in their careers yet.

Which is unfortunate
  because this is also

the point in your life
where you're being asked

to figure out what
 to do with that life.

Luckily, there is better
advice that you can use.

Cal Newport, the author
of the fantastic book,

summed it up perfectly
for me when I asked him

He said, simply, "Pick
 something you have

an interest in, and then
go full-bore and try

to get as good as you
 possibly can at it."

This advice, this focus
on building skills

this is the most effective
   way to figure out

Rather you're born
with personality traits

and certain qualities of
work that you'll enjoy.

Maybe creativity, maybe
working with people,

autonomy or a sense of
 impact in your work.

unearthed and slowly
  discovered as you make more

connections with people,
as you do more things,

In the book I just
   mentioned, Cal talks about

That's where most new
 discoveries are made.

New things we didn't even
   know were possible before

its boundaries grow
 as you explore them."

how you can go about
  finding work that you love.

As you learn and do
more and meet new people

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