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I agree. This is the biggest misunderstanding about what “follow your passion” means. It doesn’t mean “I want to win Wimbledon so I should follow my tennis” I

I agree. This is the biggest misunderstanding about what “follow your passion” means. It doesn’t mean “I want to win Wimbledon so I should follow my tennis” It means “I love playing tennis. I should pursue that and make it my vocation.” The attacks on “follow your passion” really annoy me, because they’re based on a straw man that says - you need to blindly follow what you enjoy and ignore all other concerns. Which is stupid, and no one would ever advocate for that. We’re just saying - life is short, do what you love, and aim to make it your main vocation. All within reason, which shouldn’t need to be said. And now all these people are saying “don’t follow your passion follow the money” and it’s just the worst advice, because at least if you follow your passion you’ll enjoy what you do some of the time, even if that time is around a day job.

8bitsrule 5y ago
It's a helluva lot easier to wake up and do something every day that has a lot of meaning/appeal for you. IF that something is really social status, OK. But that means nothing for a whole lot of people. (In my experience, it's the majority.) If what you really care about doing quickly eventually liberates you from laboring at it, you'll not stop - you'll have a lot more liberty to expand outward from that core and build on it. No matter how little most people appreciate it (set theory, for example) ... who cares? there will always be a least a few others.