Sunday, May 17, 2009

Never Follow Your Passion

Mike Rowe, the host of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel, wrote this in the business magazine Fast Company: "Never follow your passion, but by all means bring it with you.

""Follow your passion' is the worst advice you can give someone," he says. "Exhibit A: our 200 dirty jobs—Rene the fish gutter, or the guy who makes flowerpots out of cow shit. Once they found a thing they could make a living from, they figured out how to get great at it and how to love it. If you bring your passion with you, you can apply it to anything that makes sense. If you follow it, you're going to be miserable until X, Y, Z happens, which might be never."

Interesting perspective. A reminder that there are always different ways of looking at things.

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