By Braden Thompson
I like to use the word passion interchangeably with words like determination, conviction, and love. Passion is a strong desire that can get you to do amazing things.
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One common piece of advice you might hear when looking for jobs is to “follow your passion.” Following the work, ideas and projects that make you feel fulfilled and motivated can help lead you to jobs you will enjoy and succeed in.
You probably heard people say that passion is important in all aspects of life. But have you wondered why? We asked 12 experts, why is passion important for success in life.
One of the most critical factors in reaching your dreams and goals is being passionate about what you are doing. Courage, persistence, connections, and intelligence may also help, but success can be sweeter due to passion.
Everywhere we go, we see people who are caught doing something that they don’t care about and struggling to get through each day. Not everyone falls into this web, though. For those who are passionate about what they do, work can actually be an exciting and invigorating experience.
Passion is a powerful force in accomplishing anything you set your mind to, and in experiencing work and life to the fullest extent possible.
I’ve become convinced that one of the greatest supports to a person’s happiness is passion—whether for musical theater, video games, constitutional history, camping, stamps, shoe-shopping, teaching English as a second language, or whatever.
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Everyone wants to have passion in their work. We want a job that’s engaging, and to be led by people who care about an overarching mission.
Every individual differs in paradigms, perceptions, and passions. As stated by Einstein “Every person is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to fly high, it will give its entire life believing that it is an inane”.
The fragile nature of human life, exposed with such unbearable clarity, compelled people to ask a haunting question: “Am I really living the way I want to live?”
The question, and the questioning string which followed it, was also designed to see how people’s minds worked on a topic that brought purpose to their life. It did not matter about which topic they were passionate. It mattered that they were manifestly passionate about something.