Differentiating Passion and Skill “Follow your dreams”, “Choose a career you are passionate about”. These are all things we have heard and been taught. What people do not always realize, is that passion and skill are two very different things. Webster's Dictionary defines passion as, “intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction” while it defines skill as, “the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance”. It can easily be seen that you can be passionate about something, without having the skill to do it, just like you can have the skill to do something but not be passionate about it. This can be seen in the life of just about any individual. People have things they are passionate about and …show more content…
For passions, mine include, yo-yoing, hunting, fishing, hiking, exploring, learning, spending time with my mom, just to name a few. To be honest, I could find a way to make money doing any of these things IF I had the right amount of skill. I have enough skill to keep me interested but not enough to make money doing it. On top of that, I do not think any of these would be my passions anymore if I made them into a career. As far as skills go, I am good with math, science, physics, spanish, problem solving and just learning in general. This leads me to my career path choice of engineering, more so than my passions do. Through experience taking classes in school and researching different careers, I am leaning towards pursuing a career in engineering, which does not involve following my passion. Based on my skillset, engineering should be something that I am good at. Also, I enjoy many of the things that make up engineering but that is not what drive my decision. These factors lead me to my interest in this …show more content…
Joann Mckenna (2015) also alludes to various situations involving being unsuccessful while following your passion. You could: be passionate about something but lack the skill required to succeed, you could hate what you do but be good at it, or you could have both the passion and the skill, but the income just is not there due to lack of demand or a plethora of other reasons. All of these are negative scenarios fabricated by the fallacy that following your dreams is the way to
Each of these reflects some aspect of my personality or my daily activities. For instance, I am currently learning how to play the piano and other forms of music and enjoy getting feedback; this could be considered a form of Performing Arts, as well as my participation in church and school-based chorus throughout the years. Additionally I combine my love of Visual Arts and Programming to create small video games or mess with websites for fun. As far as Mechanics & Construction go, fixing broken devices around my house before they were thrown away was something that I used to do, but haven’t for awhile. This leaves only one interest area almost completely unused, Office Management. I would consider this a work-based interest, and a lifestyle choice of sorts: I like having things organized and efficient. My current job, however, is as a team member, and it is not in my responsibilities to organize items or people, so therefore, this interest goes unused in my
I could make a living doing what I love by either becoming a doctor or engineer. I love helping people and I could achieve that by becoming a doctor. If I was a doctor I could help create medicine to aide injured or sick people by using bioengineering. I could also do what I love by becoming an engineer though. I love being able to figure out which pieces go together, but I also
Thomas Carlyle, a preeminent figure of the Victorian era, said, “The real desire to get work done will itself lead one to more and more to truth” (Carlyle). Many teenagers all over the world rely on jobs to earn money to do fun activities with their friends. There are also many adults who have jobs to get by in life. Along with this, there are people who have a career. The difference between the two is that people who have a job work just to earn money, but do not enjoy it. People who have have a career enjoy their jobs and are very passionate.
Just because you are young or little does not mean you should stop following your dream. Just because you are a boy or girl does not mean you have to go into a certain career field. A company that is showing a good example of boys and girls choosing whatever career path they want is "Barbie." In "Forrest Gump" he was running away from bullies with his leg braces on and Jenny yelled "Run Forrest Run." His leg braces broke and he was running without them. Also in "Forrest Gump" Forrest followed his career path and some of his careers were football, shrimp fishing, and the army.
I sometimes fail to see my capabilities and questioned myself as I seek to make changes. Another thing is that there are many naysayers around, people who will do their best to discourage you from pursuing your dreams. I can recall a fellow friend and co-worker once told me that it makes no use for me to get my bachelor because shortly the government won’t have money to pay us for our degree. Presently that very same friend is doing her bachelor degree.
Many of my friends pick their careers based on money and trade skills that they have. I am proficient in art and design, but didn’t feel like that was what I wanted to do for my career. Your career shapes a huge portion of your life. It is what you do every day, for a large portion of your life. It is what I have prepared for the past 12 or so years of my life. It is way more than just money or a skill. I wanted to do something unique, something interesting, something that would inspire me to be a better human, something that would make me feel, something that is challenging, something that helped others, and above all, something that was rewarding and made me feel fulfilled.
They want them to be successful and be financially stable. Parents want students to have security in the future, and they feel those careers will provide security; “the parents mean well; they are trying to steer their sons and daughters toward a secure future” (Zinsser 453). Still, parents do not realize that in order to actually be successful the person practicing law, medicine, business, or politics the student must be driven. These careers take a lot of effort, and they include many sacrifices. If they are not performed with passion the people preforming them will be miserable. Misery is the last thing any parent wants for their child. A parent does not want to see their child under pressure, they do not want their child to suffer or face any hardships. Consequently, steering students away from their passion will turn students into stressed out, and miserable
to be pointing at. What if that person gets stuck doing another job that he/she lacks interest in and that talent turns into something negative just because society didn’t allowed him/her to fulfill his/her dreams? What now? What is going to happen to that person? If a person with his/her shelved dream loses all hope and is so filled up with anger, he/she might explode with resentment and may commit suicide, homicide or maybe both.
My passions have impacted me in such a positive way it's the reason why I’m alive today. The passions that have influenced my life are music, family and religion. You may ask yourself why? In all honesty, the past three years I had to cope with two of toughest situations I ever encountered. Losing my mother to cancer and rupturing my disc on my lower back, leaving me immobilized for months. Nevertheless, my passions help me leverage the agony and has kept me disciplined. As well as learning never to give up in any position your left with and to embrace the battle so you can prosper. For example, like Bertand Russell discusses in his essay, “Three Passions I have lived for,” I, too, live for my passions.
Motivation and Emotion (pg. 354) both play an important part in our daily life. Motivation helps us understand why we do things a certain way or why our behaviors change unexpectedly. While emotion shows our relationships with others and our health, and making important decisions. Motivation comes from the latin word “movere” which means to move where one starts on activities until one's psychological needs are fulfilled. An example in the chapter is “when a person is relaxed in front of the television and begins to feel hungry, the physical need for food might cause the person to get up, go into the kitchen, and search for something to eat”(Ciccarelli). But, there are two different types of motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. In
Pursuing your passions offers many benefits. The list above is by no means exhaustive. The important point to take away though is that the link between passion, happiness and fulfillment is clear. We all strive to achieve happiness and fulfilment in life. Engaging in activities we feel passionate about will absolutely lead us towards that Promised Land.
many, the answer is simple. There are people who have always known what their real passion is,
Choose a career that you really want and like to do. According to survey, people who likes in their career almost never bored from their jobs.
Learning: To achieve your career goals you need to learn a lot. What seemed like hard work before, now it would seem easy. From reading books to listening to audios in your car or public transport are no problem. You will learn a ton and your knowledge, skills and absorbing ability will drastically increase and you will be much smarter than people who don't set career
The problem with listening to external factors is that it will eventually just come down to you. You won’t succeed in your career if you don’t actually have the passion – you’ll soon find yourself unhappy again, whishing you could do something different. It’s not a bad idea to take note of what is happening in the world around you and to listen to people’s opinions but don’t allow them to be in the driving