Want to build a life and career around something you’re passionate about? Great! Now how do you feel about intense struggle, repeated failure, and constant change?

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2. you’re passionate about? Great! Now how do you
feel about intense struggle, repeated failure, and
constant change?
To be sure, those are things pretty much all of us
are bound to face in our careers, but it’s far more
likely you’ll have a tougher go of it if you’re dead
set on following your passion. That’s why so many
advise different approaches to finding work,
suggest ways to turn your ho‐hum gig into your
“dream job”, or counsel giving up an a passion
career altogether.
But the fact is that some people do follow their
passions and find it actually works out. One reason
they’re a small minority, though, is because we live
in a world that glorifies words like “passion” and
“purpose” when it comes to life and career choices,
but almost completely ignores the pain, failure, and
even chaos that tends to precede achieving that.
That’s a recipe for widespread disappointment.
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So we asked five professionals across a range of
fields to share the raw, unfiltered truth about
struggles they experienced as they set out to follow
their passions and, ultimately, pulled it off.
Read my and Danielle Harlan’s article in Fast
Company to find out what they said.
Special thank you to Julie Lythcott‐Haims, author of
the New York Times bestseller How to Raise an
Adult; Elizabeth Meyer, funeral director and author
of the upcoming book Good Mourning; Casey
Gerald, founder and CEO of MBAsXAmerica
and TED speaker; Adam Braun, founder of Pencils of
Promise; and Aspen Institute fellow Cathy
Casserly for sharing their stories.
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