Rhetorical Analysis Of Do What You Love By Jeff Haden

As you start to grow up, you never really stop to think what kind of passions you have for a certain work force or what you want for your future. You wonder what kind of career is best for you economically and mentally because you have to find something that brings you money but also, happiness. " You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says" is a speech delivered on June 12, 2005 by Steve Jobs for the graduating class in Standford University. The main point of this speech is finding what you love. Jobs gives personal experiences in order to prove the three points he gives in his speech. On the other hand, author Jeff Haden, who is a ghostwriter, speaker, LinkedIn Influencer, and contributing editor to Inc., wrote, "Do What You Love? Screw

That!" Was published on November 14, 2012. This article talks about how passions don't just come to you like that. You have to work for what you want and find what you love. He doesn't use any personal experiences like Jobs did, but he did include opinions and experiences from other people to support his argument. Although both authors have good examples of ethos, pathos, logos, Jeff Haden wrote a more convincing and persuasive argument on the value of “Do What You Love” advice.

In the first place, Jeff Haden wrote a more convincing and persuasive argument on the value of “Do What You Love” advice because he uses a lot of pathos throughout his essay.

He makes the reader feel some type of way throughout his essay because he gives credibility is his arguments. Jeff Haden makes people think about what their true passions are and work for them to achieve them. Haden states, "'Passion is not something you follow,' [Haden] adds. 'Passion is something that will follow you as you put in the hard work to become valuable to the world.'" If you don't have passion, then you will be miserable where ever you go to work because you won't find any interests or motivation to do the job. Unlike Steve jobs where he just tells students to "find what you love", Jeff Haden advices you to look and work for what you want, as it will take time but be worth it at the

end.

Second, Haden also uses ethos in his essay and has a stronger argument of the topic "Do What You Love" advice because with the use of ethos it is easy to understand and get his point across. Haden's points might sound repetitive at some point, but he manages to explain every single part from his essay and that's what convinced me that his argument is better. Also, his background and the vocabulary he uses makes us think that he knows what he is talking about and his credibility increases. Haden uses ethos is the following example, " The satisfaction of achieving one level of success spurs you on to gain the skills to reach the next level, and the next, and the next. And one day you wake up feeling incredibly fulfilled." This is a good example of ethos because he's trying to get his point across. He includes a statement from professor and author Cal Newport, he is a professor at Georgetown University and he says, "'That advice has probably resulted in more failed businesses than all the recessions combined... because that's not how the vast majority of people end up owning successful businesses.'" This gives credibility since a knows professor and author is giving statements about how he feels towards the topic. If readers here more about people who have a good reputation than chances are they will take the advice from Haden.

As for Steve Jobs, he uses a different approach to get to his audience.

Jobs uses more pathos throughout his speech than any other rhetorical appeal because he uses his experiences to explain why find what you love is the best advice. In the speech he mentioned about when he dropped out of college, when he created Apple, and after getting fired from his own company he created NeXt and Pixar which is where he met his wife. With all these experiences he tries to convince students that by never giving up on what they love, they will achieve their goals. He states, " You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." He gives good advice to these graduates about finding what they love to make everything else workout just like what Haden did, the only difference is that Haden also said that sometimes what you "love" isn't truly what makes you happy that's why you must explore different options, but Jobs doesn't do that. He thinks that just by giving his life experiences and what he accomplished will happen to other people. But not everyone has the same luck he

had.

In conclusion, both Jeff Haden and Steve Jobs used ethos, pathos, and logos on the topic "Do What You Love" advice. Haden talks in his article about how passions aren't always found in your career jobs. People might think they are passionate about something but deep down they're not happy. And to be happy they must work their way to the top to gain experience and be better at their job, but it takes time to accomplish that. And he also mentions about improving your skills at that certain job will make you look good at what you do. In the other hand. Jobs talks about his life experiences but doesn’t really give advice on how work themselves to the top because not everyone will be as fortunate as him. Both authors have strong arguments, but Haden is more realistic when giving advice on the topic of "Do What You Love" so therefore he makes a stronger argument.