Follow Your Passion is Terrible Advice and Here's Why - FutureIQ

Follow your passion is terrible advice. And yet people passionately follow this advice. Interestingly enough, this idea of following your dreams was not so popular till the 1990s, after which it has been a widely romanticised notion. And we're here to bust this myth today. In this episode, we give many different arguments as to why this is terrible advice along with several real life examples. Being passionate about something will not always result in success and can in fact be the source of one’s unhappiness. Passion is fleeting, passion doesn’t equal talent or competence, passion can’t give you financial security, etc. While there is a plethora of reasons why passion doesn’t always equal success, but does that mean that you should never follow your dreams? Is there a correct way to follow your passion? And how does one find meaning to life if we do not follow our passion? We’ve discussed all these questions and shared some ‘good advice’ based on research that can help you to design your life while not giving up on your passions and yet finding the happiness and success that you desire. Related Videos: Why Doing Nothing Makes You More Creative - The Hidden Power of Boredom: https://youtu.be/WaAAto_010k A cow on a golf course taught me how to deal with unfairness in life: https://youtu.be/77_YwP9aok8 Only Lucky People Become Successful: https://youtu.be/mczq-E79emo Talent VS Hard Work - Effort Shock: https://youtu.be/8SuR0lJR8ig You'll Always Lose Interest in Everything: https://youtu.be/NFqC7mlZlQw The Invisible Supply & Demand in Our Everyday Lives: https://youtu.be/imweTGK0Myk Sunk Cost Fallacy, Loss Aversion and Endowment Effect Explained with Examples: https://youtu.be/pgH79XsGlo4 How to Become Expert in Anything? Deliberate Practice: https://youtu.be/tysT6DMFGH4 Believing is Seeing - How Bayesian Priors Trick Your Senses: https://youtu.be/bxx-My8J_kM Hope you enjoyed FutureIQ by Navin Kabra and Shrikant Joshi. Do hit us up on Twitter: @ngkabra http://twitter.com/ngkabra @shrikant https://twitter.com/shrikant Listen it on the podcast provider of your choice: https://tapthe.link/FutureIQRSS Chapters: 00:00 Follow your passion is BS 01:30 Roti, Kapda aur Makaan 02:43 You cannot step into the same river twice 03:33 You might be kinda, sorta.. bad at it 04:14 It’s been a haard day’s night 05:37 Maybe you’re ordinary and that’s okay 07:45 When can you trust your passion? 09:50 Kids, listen to your parents 11:35 Follow your.. Blisters? 15:53 You’re the Architect of your life Editing Sources: Google n-gram viewer for "follow your passion" https://designingyour.life/ James Clear: Staying Focused when you’re Bored DocBhooshan on distinguishing between real passion and hype Research Sources/References/Credits: https://www.peoplematters.in/article/watercooler/find-your-purpose-because-passion-is-overrated-19253 https://markmanson.net/screw-finding-your-passion: Mark Manson: Screw Finding Your Passion https://shrikantemergic.wordpress.com/2023/07/08/passion-and-self-expression/: Shrikant on Follow your self-expression https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5073-follow-your-bliss-or-follow-your-blisters.html: Joseph Campbell - Follow Your Bliss … ters https://hbr.org/2020/11/what-you-should-follow-instead-of-your-passion: Follow your blisters https://hbr.org/2017/10/you-dont-find-your-purpose-you-build-it: You don't find purpose, you build it Mastana - 1954 - Jhoom Jhoom Ke Do Diwane - https://youtu.be/X-mpRoAhRw0