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"Follow Your Passion" Is Bad Advice by Cal Newport

11/15/2015

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We like this video, because it moves the discussion of purpose forward in a meaningful way.  Rather than believing that discovering, unlocking, and living your Godly destiny is some idealistic "magical" moment you wait for, Cal Newport informs us that it is a deliberate, steady, hard working path.

From 99u, "American culture is obsessed with the idea that we need to "find our passion" in order to be happy and successful. But there's a problem: "It's astonishingly bad piece of advice," says best-selling author Cal Newport. We have no pre-existing passion. Instead, passion is found by first building a rare and valuable talent and using it to take control of your career path. In other words, be so good and work so hard that no one can ignore you.

Cal Newport is an author and a professor computer science at Georgetown University. His writing focuses on unconventional advice for life in school and after graduation. His most recent book, So Good They Can't Ignore You, argues that "follow your passion" is bad advice. Newport's writing and ideas regularly appear in major publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Post, and Inc. Magazine."

We pray that this video causes you to think deeply regarding your Godly destiny and discovering destiny may not be as simple as what feels good and causes passionate emotion.
2 Comments
Cecil Eric Classen
1/26/2017 05:51:55 am

My passion in Christ is to be an instrument of God',s love to humanity

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Lighthouse of Christ link
1/26/2017 06:34:31 am

We bless you with the fullness of Christ's love in your life that you may be all He intends you to be, in Jesus Name, Amen.

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