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I like his overall message - but I can't help feel a twinge of disagreement that happiness and success do not come from following your passion and your dreams.

by karl11 18y ago

I like his overall message - but I can't help feel a twinge of disagreement that happiness and success do not come from following your passion and your dreams. I think a better way to say it would be that you might not find yourself where you originally dream, but if you have a direction, work hard, follow it, opportunities will come and you will get somewhere fulfilling.

gry 18y ago
Reminds me of Joseph Campbell. "...namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
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jerf 18y ago
Are you disagreeing because you have copious experience showing that following your dream leads to happiness, or are you disagreeing because it's what you've been told all your life and you can't easily give the idea up? Mike Rowe is not necessarily the world's expert on job-related happiness, but he does have a unique and extraordinarily well-traveled perspective. I am not entirely inclined to agree with him either (because of my own personal experience; I am very happy as a programmer, but I note that even many of my coworkers aren't, in the very same environment), but I can't dismiss what he says entirely either, because the man has me creamed on the experience front.
briancooley 18y ago
I don't agree with that thought in particular. Here's my take: http://briancooley.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/17/ http://briancooley.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/17/ For the tl;dr crowd: People that choose dirty jobs are often passionate about something auxiliary to the job.

by karl11 18y ago

gry 18y ago

Reminds me of Joseph Campbell. "...namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."

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jerf 18y ago

Are you disagreeing because you have copious experience showing that following your dream leads to happiness, or are you disagreeing because it's what you've been told all your life and you can't easily give the idea up? Mike Rowe is not necessarily the world's expert on job-related happiness, but he does have a unique and extraordinarily well-traveled perspective. I am not entirely inclined to agree with him either (because of my own personal experience; I am very happy as a programmer, but I note that even many of my coworkers aren't, in the very same environment), but I can't dismiss what he says entirely either, because the man has me creamed on the experience front.

briancooley 18y ago

I don't agree with that thought in particular. Here's my take: http://briancooley.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/17/ http://briancooley.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/17/ For the tl;dr crowd: People that choose dirty jobs are often passionate about something auxiliary to the job.