There is a misconception about passion and that upon the discovery of one’s own, surely success and happiness will follow. This impression has led to confusion and angst within the younger generations and has served as the most common determinant of the typical quarter-life crisis.
There is a sense of entitlement that has plagued the younger communities with the assumption that we are somehow born with a pre-existing hidden passion that longs for discovery. This notion has led to a generation of youth, seeking for something that might not yet exist.
Many young adults have focused so much time trying to figure out what their pre-existing passion is, that they are wasting their 20s looking for something that is not there. Most of these young adults are seeking to focus on one of their many interests, that in the process, they are neglecting the reality of attaining career capital.
There is a skills-gap within the education system and the competing workforce, and this is highly due to the fact that most of these students and young adults are too busy searching for their passions that they have forgotten the importance of skill and how dexterity can be attained.
Skill is not something that one is born with, but something that grows through hard practice and experience. Skill is what the competing workforce is searching for and what can be a motivator for success.
The reality is that most young adults, in the search for pre-existing passions, usually use this search as an excuse for their unfulfilled goals. Most believe that if they just continue going to school or working a job just to get by, that one day some type of divine intervention will take over and everything will suddenly fall into place.
Unfortunately, the world doesn’t work that way. It is for these reasons that following your passion can be dangerous. Most become so focused on just getting by and waiting for something to happen, that they forget that time doesn’t wait, and often by the time they realize this, it is already too late.
What most of these pre-existing passion searchers need to learn is how to hustle and develop the determination to succeed. They need to learn to do whatever needs to be done in order to attain their goals.
Success requires determination and hard work that most of us are too lazy to provide. We need to begin to focus less on finding our passion, and more on building our skills and putting in the work needed to reach our goals.
Most of us believe that we are destined for success, but the truth is that we make our own successes. It is up to us to abandon the pre-existing passion mentality and focus on getting out there to work on achieving our goals and stop waiting for them to just happen.
We can all begin to develop useful skills that can be used to attain a desired goal and maybe then we will find that passion most of us have always been searching for.