Yeah, that is 100% pure truth.
I donât 100% agree with video guy but what he says is at least a step better than âfollow your passionâ. Nothing anyone does is guaranteed to lead to finding/creating passion, success, money, or love.
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I think I do it like this
Step 1. Identify things you are good at
Step 2. Of those pick the one you are most passionate about
Step 3, grit, etc.
Instead of this:
Step 1. Identify things you are passionate about
Step 2. Pick the one you are best at
Step 3. grit, etc.
I think the first approach will yield better overall results and likely more happiness than the second approach. Although the vast majority of the time they will lead to the same place.
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The problem with following your passion is that the things most people are passionate about canât provide them with a paycheck, and there are also a rather significant number of people who never figure out how to be passionate about anything. Thereâs also the problem of all the absolutely necessary jobs that nobody will ever be passionate about, like cleaning port-a-johns. Telling people to follow their passions is just shit advice that doesnât provide value for them or society.
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Whenever i had something im passionate about and turned it into a job, it became a jobâŚ
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It is for most people. Except substitute competent for great. And it doesnât necessarily lead to recognition, money, or love.
Your job is to find something youâre passionate about and get good at it.
Thatâs fine as long as you donât starve in the process. Guy may be an idiot, but at least heâs not as lazy as the follow your passion people. Theyâre basically saying, hey I donât have time for you, follow your passion and get lost.
Have you looked into being an influencer?
Befriend Mason Malmuth
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Iâm not. Maybe thatâs why it irritates me.
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Yeah, what I tell people is to find a problem that youâre passionate about working on. This is the superior framing, IMO, and also is helpful in how you describe yourself to others. If someone asks you âWhy do you want to work here?â you want to respond in terms if the problems youâre going to solve. If you tell people that you are passionate about getting paid to do stuff that you enjoy doing that doesnât sound like a great value prop for the employer.
Yeah, itâs just generic pablum, really, like âFind a job you love and youâll never work a day in your lifeâ like yes you fucking will, mate. People love being parents more than just about anything and itâs obviously one of the most demanding, hard-work-involving things a person can do (assuming you donât just half-ass it).
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Itâs at least as good as telling people that through grit and perseverance they can clean port-a-johns so well that they will inevitably become a port-a-john cleaning magnate. The fundamental problem with both is the assumption that career success will necessarily make you happy or anyway that career success is a good primary goal in life.
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It just varies so much from person to person. For some people being a mail carrier, walking around all day with headphones on, and then going home and checking out, and having good security, and good retirement at a relatively young age (up until this point anyway - probably going to change) is perfect. Itâs all a matter of weighing many factors and everyone assigns different weights to things. Good advice though is at least donât take a job that makes you miserable and you have to do for a long time. Life is too short and you may well die within a couple years of whatever goal - financial independence/retirement.
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Yeah, my framing presumes that a person is looking for work with âgreater purposeâ. Building a secure life is certainly a valid higher priority.
One piece of advice I think itâs drastically under-given to young people is to choose bosses carefully. If you have an awful boss, and most bosses are indeed awful, you will almost certainly be unhappy.
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More specifically, how a good boss behaves as well. A lot of younger people get duped by manipulative psychos.
this isnât windows RT or whatever from 20 years ago, dude.
Scott Galloway is hyper-elite, he has some really weird blindspots but overall heâs very solid, he does a couple of podcasts (Pivot with Kara Swisher and the Prof G show)
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Id rather have something which pays my bills, with little stress, or investment of caring about it or cares if i have to find a new one.
Or work to live not live to work.
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Why are certain people obsessed with walking their dogs off-leash?