Tim Ferriss once wrote: “Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don’t, you’ll never find time for the life-changing big things
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As Thomas discovered, the path to happiness—at least as it concerns what you do for a living—is more complicated than simply answering the classic question “What should I do with my life?”
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Don’t follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, “so good that they can’t ignore you.”
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Don’t Follow Your Passion
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Chapter One
The “Passion” of Steve Jobs
In which I question the validity of the passion hypothesis, which says that the key to occupational happiness is to match your job to a pre-existing passion
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Do What Steve Jobs Did, Not What He Said
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Chapter Two
Passion Is Rare
In which I argue that the more you seek examples of the passion hypothesis, the more you recognize its rarity
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I feel like your problem is that you’re trying to judge all things in the abstract before you do them. That’s your tragic mistake
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The astrobiologist Andrew Steele, for example, exclaims, “No, I had no idea what I was going to do. I object to systems that say you should decide now what you’re going to do.”
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Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.