Importance of "Finding your passion"

Importance of ‘Finding your passion’ Your Name Subject and section Professor’s Name June 14, 2019 Introduction These days joblessness has been one of the most prevalent issues whether in the United States or any other parts of the world. The lack of job leads to several other problems such as poverty, homelessness, and even other physical and psychological problems. To understand this, this project assignment has focused on the post of HONY, which narrates how the individual was able to get a decent job, even without continuing yet his college education. Additionally, this assignment would compare it with an article written by Lee (2019) in The New York Times, which states that the idea of ‘finding your passion’ is a terrible advice. All in all, this assignment would both focus on the messages of the two articles as well as analyze the rhetoric behind them. On the one hand, the post from HONY highlights the personal experience of a middle-aged man who was stuck with his life. At first, he was expected by his parents (especially his father) to have a college degree like him. However, as he was already into college, he ran into several challenges that caused emotional problems, which later caused him to drop out. However, he said that he ‘got better’ in almost all facets of his life as he started working. Accordingly, this post reflects the situation of many individuals who got stuck with their life. Some got stuck while studying, working, or even while finding their own passions. Going back to the HONY’s posts, it was apparent that he got stuck while following the ‘expectations of society’, which is one of the most common reasons why people experience difficulty in moving forward with their lives. Nevertheless, the post itself showed that when people get stuck, it is best to try something else and just go back after one finds his true passion or calling in life. On the other hand, Lee’s posts states that finding one’s passion is a “terrible advice”. This is rooted from a study conducted about people who believes in a fixed theory and a growth theory, with the former believing that people could find their passion as early as they start working, while the latter believing that passion could be developed over time. In the same study, Lee noted that those who believes on the fixed theory gives up more easily and thinks that their passion lies somewhere else. As compared to them, those who believe in the growth theory thinks that they can ‘develop’ their own passion, even from things which they don’t find passionate...