Follow Your Passion is Terrible Advice and Here's Why - FutureIQ

Follow your passion is terrible advice. And yet people passionately follow this advice. Interestingly enough, this idea of following your dreams was not so popular till the 1990s, after which it has been a widely romanticized notion. And we're here to bust this myth today.In this episode, we give many different arguments as to why this is terrible advice along with several real life examples. Being passionate about something will not always result in success and can in fact be the source of one’s unhappiness. Passion is fleeting, passion doesn’t equal talent or competence, passion can’t give you financial security, etc. While there is a plethora of reasons why passion doesn’t always equal success, but does that mean that you should never follow your dreams?Is there a correct way to follow your passion? And how does one find meaning to life if we do not follow our passion? We’ve discussed all these questions and shared some ‘good advice’ based on research that can help you to design your life while not giving up on your passions and yet finding the happiness and success that you desire.