Why Passion Has Became A Central Subject Of Choosing A Career?

Manav Malhotra
3 min readMar 7, 2021

Most GOAT observations have taught us to pursue a singular obsession of yourself, evenly if we say, what you love. Wrong equations about passion are floating in the midst of self-help scenario. Working for what you might know partially and have invested a considerable amount of time in that domain could be a better reason for finding a path suitable for your future instincts. People have been working for what they loved and now equally hate the job they are handling, now the question is, have everyone figured out so damn surely for what they love or there is any middle formula for figuring out a perspective on how to do your passion? (without getting pissed off) and sure there is, the equation is incomplete, not just finding your passion helps but by the execution of the criterias in your personality traits makes you one step forward in self-growth while exploring your scope in that activity. Surely, working for what you love for your whole life doesn’t suits well, for example, if writing is your passion then having your whole life in finishing a novel doesn’t help, maybe you are a essay writing or subjective writing person, and that’s an exploration and discovery simultaneously, you may not be good in writing exams but at the same time you know what essence of writing suits you well.
Many people in consuming their passion ignore the other factors tucked to the side, if the passion is your purpose in life then it should have your situations as a driving force which many people ignore like we’ve forbidden the Corona Virus, of course example is, if your financial environment is not as secure but you do not tend on your passion delivering it your way, then it could become unhealthy by the way of providing you emotional satisfaction only, right? Monetization of your skills related to your passion is another factor we need to add in the equation of the GOAT observation. A quote I remember reading, ‘If you are good at something never do it for free’, I apologize for I am no good at nomenclature so I don’t remember who said, I think it’s from The Dark Knight.
Another way of looking at your everyday living becomes an activity you love versus the activity which makes you more productive, we often have a perspective of ‘Hard things are productive’, yes they are but afterall you have the skill to have the activity you love at ease. If you give an engineer a pen to write and say you have to be productive, then he will end up writing some mediocre shit. And that’s what you actually are doing in your so-called productive domain and even if you have proper calibration with your work then also you end up choosing what you love at the end, because of your breakdown or saturation point or burn out or whatever.
At last, there’s a necessary argument I have to make which is passion is not choosing an art everytime like singing or dancing or something and even not choosing passion at all. The habits are what would make you more competent in every aspect, even having a habit of shitting in the morning helps with your digestive system, it has nothing to do with passion but we still do it because we don’t want to struggle because of ourselves and our inactions. Take actions, don’t think everytime that you will make things worse or you would have them badly done, start from where you are.

Passion is only a word for a more strong and meaningful love for our purposes in life.

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