Do NOT Follow Your Passion [Archive.org URL]

For decades we’ve been told to “follow your passion” to “find the career meant for you.” “Do what you love and the money will follow.” Such clichés have become a staple of commencement speeches, such as Steve Jobs’ famed 2005 address at Stanford in which he said: “There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

But what if the evidence showed that this advice will do your career more harm than good?

In his contrarian new book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Georgetown University professor Cal Newport reveals that loving what we do is a wise goal, but following your passion is not the way to get there.

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