Do What You Love

This:

"In general, try things that seem worthwhile, set goals and work hard to achieve them, and see where that leads and how you respond. It’ll be clear when something becomes compelling"

Everybody says "do what you love". Few say how to find what you love. Fewer still say how to manage to work as hard as you should to find what you love.

It's kind of a circular problem, when you love something you'll naturally work very hard on it, when you are still searching what it is you love, it's really hard to get the energy to work as hard as you should to find the elusive loved mission.

Most people's minds are very good at finding or making up that one thing when it is needed for survival. For happiness, that is a different head of cabbage.

I love when people write these kinds of things, and include all the details. Makes it so much more memorable.

Good read.

I think it's important to remember that "Do What You Love" may not lead to financial success. It will only lead to you doing more of what you love, which may or may not ever pay well.

(I'm a stay-at-home dad, and I love it. But it doesn't generate a lot of cash.)

I always hated that advice "Do what you Love". It's a fucking terrible advice. I know people mean well when they give that advice, but its a downright terrible advice for the vast majority of people.

Let me point out that this is an article written by a guy that ended up "loving" programming. I know that there is a lot of programmers here, (myself included) but let's face the reality here: only weirdos love programming. I say this because I'm a weirdo and I love programming, and every friend I know that loves programming is more or less the.. eccentric type. We just happen to be very fortunate in that we happen to love something that guarantees a middle class income and plenty of opportunities.

Most people are normal and love normal things. They like food, they like music, they like art, they like sex, they like sports, they like adventure. If you tell normal people to do what they love, you are practically dooming them to shit careers. It's all about supply and demand. Most people love the same things that other people love (except programmers, who are weirdos), and there just isn't enough jobs that normal people will love. Maybe 1% of normal people will end up in their dream job, and the other 99% end up on the hamster wheel chasing what they love.