Stop Trying to Find Your Passion

Develop Your Passion

"We need to carefully consider what we communicate to people about interests and passions...Parents, teachers, and employers might get the most out of people if they suggest that interests are developed, not simply found."

-Paul O'Keefe, Yale Psychologist

Before reading Ephrat Levni's article, "Find Your Passion" is bad advice", I would always tell my students to "get out there and find your passion, and your destiny awaits you!" I would speak these words with such conviction because this is what I was always told.

Levni's article was truly an eye-opener. The article suggests that we have to STOP telling our co-workers, students, and even family members to stop seeking their passion and we need to start telling them to DEVELOP their passion.

This is really good advice because as Levni described in the article, your passion isn't sitting there waiting for you and all the questions to life will be answered once you find it. No, Levni says that you pick your passion and develop it to the best of your ability and keep working at it.

I challenge all of you to STOP trying to find your passion and telling others to do so. Today is the day we tell others (and ourselves) to DEVELOP your passion because this will put you in the driver's seat and in control of where your future is headed.