Finding your passion is stupid simple
Oh, hi friends!
What are your passions?
Ugh. Sorry. Terrible question. But it’s one people often ask when they’re looking to make a career change.
So when I came across this blurb in Reid Hoffman’s book The Start-Up of You I thought others would find it helpful:
Review your calendar, journals, and old emails and get a sense for how you spent your last six Saturdays. What do you do when you have nothing urgent to do? How you spend your free time may reveal your true interests and aspirations; compare them to what you say your aspirations are.
Because what seems ordinary to you isn’t ordinary to everyone.
I know people who spend their weekends at farmers’ markets and trying new recipes. They’re clearly passionate about donut peaches and, uh, other things one might find at a farmers' market.
Meanwhile, I saw three plays over the last six weekends and spent my free time talking to people about their careers and goals. That’s probably unusual to other people.
So what do you do when no one’s watching? If you want to figure out what you love, look at what you’re already doing.
You need not see what someone is doing
to know if it is his vocation,
you have only to watch his eye:
a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon
making a primary incision,
a clerk completing a bill of lading,
wear the same rapt expression,
forgetting themselves in a function.
How beautiful it is,
that eye-on-the-object look.
—W.H. Auden
(Excerpted in Drive by Daniel H. Pink)
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Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara