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http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2016/06/dont-follow-your-passion-its-whats-holding-you-back/
Thought this article could resonate very well with the premed community... at least for myself and the premed cohort I experienced in college. Our profession has one of the highest incidences of mental illness and I believe having the wrong mindset (passion instead of purpose and realism) fuels such anxieties and depressions. The article is kind of long but I'd be curious to hear y'alls take on it.
Some lines I thought were important:
"The critical work that you want to do will require your deliberation and consideration. Not passion. Not naïvete. It’d be far better if you were intimidated by what lies ahead—humbled by its magnitude and determined to see it through regardless."
"Make it about what you feel you must do and say, not what you care about and wish to be."
"When we are young, or when our cause is young, we feel so intensely—passion like our hormones runs strongest in youth—that it seems wrong to take it slow. This is just our impatience. This is our inability to see that burning ourselves out or blowing ourselves up isn’t going to hurry the journey along."
"It is that burning, unquenchable desire to start or to achieve some vague, ambitious, and distant goal. This seemingly innocuous motivation is so far from the right track it hurts"
Thought this article could resonate very well with the premed community... at least for myself and the premed cohort I experienced in college. Our profession has one of the highest incidences of mental illness and I believe having the wrong mindset (passion instead of purpose and realism) fuels such anxieties and depressions. The article is kind of long but I'd be curious to hear y'alls take on it.
Some lines I thought were important:
"The critical work that you want to do will require your deliberation and consideration. Not passion. Not naïvete. It’d be far better if you were intimidated by what lies ahead—humbled by its magnitude and determined to see it through regardless."
"Make it about what you feel you must do and say, not what you care about and wish to be."
"When we are young, or when our cause is young, we feel so intensely—passion like our hormones runs strongest in youth—that it seems wrong to take it slow. This is just our impatience. This is our inability to see that burning ourselves out or blowing ourselves up isn’t going to hurry the journey along."
"It is that burning, unquenchable desire to start or to achieve some vague, ambitious, and distant goal. This seemingly innocuous motivation is so far from the right track it hurts"
