To find work you love, don't follow your passion | Benjamin Todd | TEDxYouth@Tallinn
Mainstream career advice tells us to “follow our passion”, but this advice is dead wrong. Research shows that people who take this approach are ultimately no ...
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Translator: Queenie Lee Reviewer: Ivana Korom When I graduated from university, I didn't know what career I wanted to choose. I had a lot of interests, but which interest should I pursue and try and turn into a job? So, back then, I was really interested in martial arts. Here's me. But I didn't want to turn that into a career. Here's my face. (Laughter) I was really interested in, and I was studying philosophy, but one of the philosophers I most enjoyed reading - late at night, in my dorm room - recently said, "Philosophy is a bunch of empty ideas," and there's no job in philosophy, anyway. So that was out. Being a slightly weird kid, I was really interested in investing and finance, and I had even taken a portion of the small savings I had, an...
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Translator: Queenie Lee Reviewer: Ivana Korom When I graduated from university, I didn't know what career I wanted to choose. I had a lot of interests, but which interest should I pursue and try and turn into a job? So, back then, I was really interested in martial arts. Here's me. But I didn't want to turn that into a career. Here's my face. (Laughter) I was really interested in, and I was studying philosophy, but one of the philosophers I most enjoyed reading - late at night, in my dorm room - recently said, "Philosophy is a bunch of empty ideas," and there's no job in philosophy, anyway. So that was out. Being a slightly weird kid, I was really interested in investing and finance, and I had even taken a portion of the small savings I had, an...
