175. Why Following Your Passion Is Useless Advice - Jordan Rants
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How many of us have heard or been told, “Just follow your passion. You can’t go wrong.” Well, what if we were to tell you that this advice is not only wrong but also very dangerous? Join me (Jordan) on this quick but enlightening episode on the alternative to passion for long term success.
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(0:20) The Passion Hypothesis
(1:43) Steve Jobs Keynote Speech
(3:34) Fired from Atari
(6:06) Career Passions
(9:02) Daniel Pink and Motivation
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys, Jordan here with a real quick and in-your-face episode. |
| 0:03.5 | I want to just share with you a concept that I've been really exploring lately, |
| 0:08.0 | and it has to do with a book that I'm reading called Be So Good They Can't Ignore You |
| 0:11.7 | from one of my favorite authors, Cal Newport. |
| 0:14.0 | And it's called, or that's what the book's called, but the idea here is around passion. |
| 0:17.5 | And there's this thing called passion hypothesis. And, you know, how many of us |
| 0:21.8 | have been told at some point or another, just got to follow your passion, right? You got to be |
| 0:26.2 | passionate. Like, passion is what drives everything. And don't get me wrong, like to an extent, |
| 0:30.7 | there's some truth in that. But there's also, it's also not very pragmatic. And it also can limit |
| 0:36.5 | you in terms of overall fulfillment |
| 0:38.5 | in your career, in your business and everything else. Like, look, fitness is a passion of mine, |
| 0:44.2 | but I don't wake up every single day and get to work in things that I'm extremely passionate about, |
| 0:49.2 | right? It's not like I'm just training all day or doing things that I love every single day, |
| 0:53.8 | but I've grown to really love my doing things that I love every single day, but I've |
| 0:54.3 | grown to really love my work because I've shifted from a passion sort of pursuit into a more |
| 0:59.9 | craftsman pursuit. And the idea here is that it's the pursuit of mastery is what ultimately is going |
| 1:05.2 | to allow you to find this high point of fulfillment. And I'm going to dig into just some like |
| 1:09.7 | very practical ways in which this makes sense. Starting with like, well, look, the passion hypothesis is not just some |
| 1:16.1 | innocent, optimistic view of the workplace, but it can also leave you with this like riddled angst |
| 1:21.3 | and confusion and like workplace dissatisfaction because you're going to have times when you're just |
| 1:25.8 | not fucking passionate about what you're doing. Right. Like it's like relying on motivation rather than discipline, a similar |
| 1:31.0 | concept here. But there is a North Star that you can guide with that you can follow that's going |
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