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Following your passion is terrible career advice for young people. Focus instead on building valuable skills that offer you autonomy and relatedness. Cal Newport defines this error as the passion hypothesis in his So Good They Can’t Ignore You book: "The key to occupational happiness is first to figure out what you are passionate about and then find a job that matches this passion" Barbara Oakley describes in her Mindshift course the “Passion Trap”: "We're often encouraged to follow our passions by well-meaning people, friends and teachers"via the TL;DR App
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