Don't Follow Your Passion!

Fuck this guy. If you want to win you have to take risks. You might lose. Or, you can play it safe and settle for less. There's no right choice.
 
NelmarksGhost said:
Fuck this guy. If you want to win you have to take risks. You might lose. Or, you can play it safe and settle for less. There's no right choice.
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I think there comes a time when you must decide what is more important. Sometimes your passions can destroy your life, so it is a question everyone must make on their own. I think if you're childless, you should push harder towards your passions. After kids, it becomes much more complicated of a choice, since it really is no longer all about you.
 
Follow your passion, but make sure your passion can pay the bills (i.e. robotics, video game design, electrical engineering, aviation etc). If your passion is Gender Studies, Liberal Arts or Philosophy, heh good luck in life.
 
Maturity is when you give up on being everything you ever wanted to be, and instead choose to become one thing you want to be.

For most people, Yes, don't follow your passion. It won't work out and 90% of people out there in the world feel profoundly unfulfilled. Following your passion will not fill that hole. It exacerbates it. Thinking your passions will avert the feelings of discontent and unfulfillment that comes with life will compound those feelings when it doesn't. You gave up a life that could have made you rich, or earned a degree in something that interested you because you wanted to be happy in life. Turns out you're still not happy and knowing you and your family are living in poverty now because you're an idiot turns discontent to profound sorrow. Successful people don't operate on their own passions, they operate off of others

"Society is full of people that need things . . . Either you will go about the task of seeing to those needs by learning a unique set of skills, or the world will reject you, no matter how kind, giving, and polite you are. You will be poor, you will be alone, you will be left out in the cold."
 
French Canadian said:
Think of all the people that pursued a career as actors, directors, bands and artits, didn't give up an became miserable. That number is a lot bigger than the number of succesful ones. That is what he argues, so statistically, chances are you are nothing special and will fail.

I quit business school 2 months ago to study my passion though, so you can guess what my stance is on this matter.
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I fully support you in persuing your passion.

But for the 'not everyone becomes successful' yeah, that's no secret, and there no one that's successful and had everything served to them on a silver platter. Success is earned through hardship and failures.
 
Yes and no. Follow your passion, but also be realistic about it.

One piece of advice someone gave me that always stuck was: "You gotta be ahead of the curve, if you see a bandwagon, it's already too late."
 
Desdinova said:
Yes and no. Follow your passion, but also be realistic about it.

One piece of advice someone gave me that always stuck was: "You gotta be ahead of the curve, if you see a bandwagon, it's already too late."
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I think that is really short sighted advice.

You don't have to be the first person in an industry to be successful, you just have to find a niche and succeed there.

Look at Papa John's pizza. He wasn't the first guy to sell pizza, he wasn't the first chain pizza place, he really didn't innovate but Papa John's is now a multi-billion dollar business. Same for Wendy's restaurants, same for countless other examples.
 
Why is Dennis Prager centered around telling people to stop believing in themselves and just "Get to work"?

Sorry we're not all born to rich jewish families you ignorant fuck.
 
I never followed my passions because chasing tail and getting drunk would have only been an option if I could throw a football 70 yards.
 
I Am Legion said:
I never followed my passions because chasing tail and getting drunk would have only been an option if I could throw a football 70 yards.
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My passion was was getting drunk and chasing tail.
 
I don't think that many people are truly passionate. They might think it would be pretty cool to do a certain thing in place of the typical 9-5. But at the end of the day doing the thing isn't reward enough in itself, and they need to use it as a means to having what everyone else has or they're a failure.
 
My dream as a young kid was to be a garbageman, no joke. Set your expectations low, so when you exceed them you will be happy.
That first statement is true, but even doing something you are passionate about for a living can fucking ruin it for you. Was passionate about photography, ran my own business doing it for about ten years, burned me out on it, never regained that passion. Went on to work in IT, now can't fucking stand to be on a computer after clocking out.
 
my passion is getting drunk and posting on sherdog. hrrrrmmm maybe he is right.
 
GearSolidMetal said:
Think of your favorite actors, directors, bands, and artists.... and what if they came across their first bump in the road and said "Fuck it, I'm gonna get a real job."
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by the same token, how many failed and will forever fail at such high ambitions?

go to college, get a liberal arts degree, and complain about being forever alone ;)
 
i must confess ... ive certainly learned it the hard fkin way
still tho i say ... dont waste ur motherfukin time ... go and live ur dreams
 
Get a job hippies. Plenty of time to follow your dreams, after you move out of mom's basement.
 
My passion is murdering drifters, so I appreciate the advice Mike Rowe.
 
ObsoleteSoul said:
I think there comes a time when you must decide what is more important. Sometimes your passions can destroy your life, so it is a question everyone must make on their own. I think if you're childless, you should push harder towards your passions. After kids, it becomes much more complicated of a choice, since it really is no longer all about you.
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I completely agree.
 
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