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Ask John: Finding your passion

Ask John: Finding your passion

- This viewer writes, "I keep hearing "that I should do what I love, follow my passion, "things like that, but I don't have anything like that. "I like graphic design, but I'm not very good, "and I don't know if I have what it takes. "I don't want to get stuck in the wrong career." A couple things. In my experience we're not passionate about things we don't know. We may have an interest, we start, and it may become a passion, I mean a real love, and if we can work that into a career, that's the best. But maybe not. There's a learning curve. Ira Glass years ago observed that we get into the creative arts because we have good taste. But in the beginning our skills don't match our taste. We work, and our work disappoints us, because it's just not very good. And there's nothing to do but fight through that. Stumbles, setbacks, false starts, but we evolve, we grow, we get little winds, and they add up. I like the example of the natural world. Our amazing world, you know, the trees, the…

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