Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, then a lifetime of deepening
Interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world.
- You can’t really predict with certainty what will catch your attention and what wont
- You can’t will yourself to like things either.
There is a mythology that falling in love with a career should be sudden and swift.
- A lot of things seem superficial and uninteresting until you start doing them
- After a while, you realize there’s so many facets you didn’t know in the start
- It requires that you stick with it.
Resource: Refinement
Our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic years long cultivation and refinement.
Purpose – What ripens passion is the conviction that your work matters.
For most people, interest without purpose is nearly impossible to sustain for a lifetime.
- It is therefore imperative that you identify your work as both personally interesting and at the same time, integrally connected to the well-being of others.
- For many, the motivation to serve others heightens after the development of interest and years of disciplined practice.
- “My work is important to me and to others.”
craving and resource from “Grit” by Angela Duckworth
