Why following your passion is a bad idea?

Why following your passion is a bad idea?

It promises all the things you want in life but it shows no strategy on how to achieve them. It simply assumes that by following your passion, you will work harder than others and achieve your goals. If it was that simple, 98% of actors would not work at a Starbucks or some other non-acting, low-paid job.

How do you follow your passion and succeed?

4 Ways to Stop Making Excuses and Follow Your Passion

1. Decide if you’re truly passionate. “(Entrepreneurship) is not for everyone,” Zhao says.
2. Get to know your market. Before launching a new venture, scope out your competitors, get to know your customers, and meet entrepreneurs that you might emulate.
3. Create a safety net.
4. Turn to family and friends for support.

Is passion a choice?

Passion is a decision for most of us. While it would be wonderful and miraculous to wake up one day and know exactly what you want and where you are going, it’s probably not going to happen. Your passion is a fire that you have to build for yourself, in yourself.

How can passion help you?

Passion not only feels great, as it releases positive-feeling hormones into our systems, it also helps life out in practical ways. First, it helps us persevere through challenges. For example, if you have little passion for your job, it’s very difficult to push through hard times. Having a work ethic helps.

What passion feels like?

Passion is an emotion specifically intended to make you go crazy and work your ass off at something because your brain believes it could rock your world. That, like love, is a feeling worth fighting for. And like love, what we’re passionate about is too important to leave to the mercy of fate.

Does everyone have a passion in life?

Most people don’t have a passion. Most people are basically just doing what they are told, or what they think they are supposed to do. More often than not they really don’t have a passion. This in no way makes them a bad or lesser person.