Why Following Your Passion is Terrible Career Advice - Jacob Morgan

We have all heard it before, the advice that many people have given when asked for career advice or when talking to college students entering the workforce--”Follow your passion”. But there are some challenges with that statement.

First of all, telling people to follow their passion assumes that the passion is something that lives outside of them and they have to chase it. The second issue is that we assume it is a static thing, that there is one passion it is in a certain location and that’s where you have to go. The truth is our passions change-- as we get older, as we go through experiences in life and as we expand our horizons.

Thirdly, the problem is that often we are not able to identify a passion before we choose to pursue something. It happens all the time, someone tries something new and that sparks a new passion. So to think that we have to simply follow a passion would take away the possibility of finding a new passion in something we didn’t think of before.

The real question is: how can we bring our passion with us to everything that we do. It is better to bring that passion with you instead of trying to chase it.

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[LynchtheFinch]

there's also a fine line between a passion and a paying hobby. content creators often experience burnout, as what they previously did as a hobby to de-stress is no longer therapeutic. they often stop making fun content because following your passion in such a way ruins your hobbies.

[iansarkar]

What if someone has a static passion ? I mean it's the only thing that person can think about. It's like obsession. What will you ask that person to do ? Try for some day time job ? Shouldn't that person follow their " passion " ?