Sunday morning, rain was falling, and me scrolling through Netflix bored, not knowing what to watch, because unfortunately I finished Prison Break, the series I was watching. And I noticed a Ted Talks season, and I thought to myself why not educate myself a bit, but still watch Netflix. That is when I came across with the a speech talking about passions or interests. This made me question my decisions...
How many times have you heard significant people in your life say “ If you want a successful career you need to pursue your dreams and do what you are passionate about”, one time, two times or even ten times you don't seem to actually follow that advice, most people don´t including myself. You hear it and see it, yet you still choose not to do it. Maybe you are too lazy to find your passions or maybe it is just too hard. So then like me you make up a variety of excuses whether or not you make them consciously… You think oh but those people with great careers are just lucky, so you decide I will just wait to be lucky and if not I will just conform with a normal career. Then you come to the observation that those people who are successful and know to follow their career are different they are geniuses, and you are not geniuses. Yet you still want to have a great career, but you are not prepared to pursue that passion of yours, still making excuses. Thinking about what to do, the traditional lesson comes up remembering what school taught you, if i work really hard it will pay off and therefore you'll get a great career. Pushing yourself to it though evidence points the other way. But then, finally you arrive to the conclusion that you should search for it, taht same passion that drives people like Steve Jobs, the “lucky” or “geniuses”. Another problem comes up, open that haunts most of us. So what is your passion? Oh well, I am interested in this you say. Though not noticing that an interest is not the same as a passion. A quote from the talk made me realize this “Are you really going to go to your wife and say marry me! You're interesting!” You'll have thousands of interest though one of them will stand out, and that will be your passion. But… you will still choose not to follow that same advice. Be careful, for when you're an adult and have your family your kid perhaps will tell you “I want to be a firefighter!” and you will not tell him “Go ahead pursue your passion and be happy.” Because then he'll ask you if you did. Not having another choice but lie to him, because you did not pursue it. You were too afraid to follow it, you were afraid you may try and encounter failure. And you'll find yourself questioning why, why didn´t I do it? If only I would have risked it and tried.
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Tomás Arrarte
9/30/2015 12:17:20 am
Barclay, this was a nice post overall, especially because you talked about passions –a really important topic. Still, there are some aspects you can "better," namely, the organization when it comes to each paragraph.
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Cristina BarclayCurrent eleventh grader at Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt, taking the IB diploma program. Archives
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