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There is so much advice on how to find your passion, it’s confusing
Is there a better way? Yes, there is
I’ve been here before, wondering what I should be doing with my life, and not wanting to commit to anything just in case I ended up wasting my time. I am one of these people with lots of different, diverse interests. There isn’t one thing that ‘floats my boat’. I was always envious of people that only had one obsession in life and went for it ‘head-on’.
If I started on one of my projects, I was often afraid to put everything into it, in case it ‘wasn’t it’. That a month in, I would lose interest and look for a new project. And I just couldn’t decide. Which one should I choose? It used to give me such a big headache. So I ended up doing nothing instead.
The trouble is, finding your passion is not a thought process. You cannot really read a book on it and find yourself being struck by lightning or seeing fireworks and realising you’ve found it. It just doesn’t work like that. It’s the same for advice from other people, strategies, articles, or any other secret method that purports to help you discover your passion.
It’s not a cerebral process, it’s a physical one. It’s about the experience. You will only know it’s your passion when you are doing it, not reading about it or listening to somebody…
