Don’t Follow Your Passion

B2 – Upper intermediate

Young people often feel pressured to make decisions about how they want to spend the rest of their lives. Should we follow our passion wherever it may take us? Which is better—do what you love or learn to love what you do? How can you know which course to take or avoid?

Watch the video and listen to Mike Rowe talk about his opinion on “following one’s passion”.

Discussion Questions:

1. What is your opinion about the statement “Don’t follow your passion”?
2. What do you really want?
3. Do you like what you are now?
4. What do you think will happen if you had followed your passion?
5. Would you be willing to work for free just to follow your passion?

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2 replies on “Don’t Follow Your Passion”

1. What is your opinion about the statement “Don’t follow your passion”?
I agree with this statement, I think that in general is a good advise. Only a few people can make a living from their passion. Sometimes we have an idea about some works or activities that had nothing to do with the reality. We need to try and experimet things to have a better knowledge about it, and the result could be that something that we think it won´t like, at the end it could be a discovery and like more than we expected.
2. What do you really want?
Nowadays I had a clear idea of I don´t want for myself, but at the same time I think that I could feel happy with a lot of things. I like to learn new things, I´m curious and I want to be a better person and a better professional day after day, so I´m open-minded.
3. Do you like what you are now?
I´m happy with the path I follow in live and with what I´ve achieved. I´m sure that if I had chosen other options in live I would be happy also. Our attitude is more important than our capabilities, with attitude, effort and time we can reach our goals.
4. What do you think will happen if you had followed your passion?
I didn´t have a real passion. I liked to draw and I was unsure whether to study architecture, but finally I decided to study engineering with the conviction that it would give me access to more professional oportunities.
5. Would you be willing to work for free just to follow your passion?
No, I wouldn´t be willing to work for free just to follow my passion because I have to make a living to pay the bills 😉

You are doing a good job with your writing practice so far.

Take a look at how this sentence can be written better:

We need to try and experimet things to have a better knowledge about it, and the result could be that something that we think it won´t like, at the end it could be a discovery and like more than we expected.

We need to try and experiment with different things to have a better knowledge about it, them and the result could be that something that we thought we wouldn’t won´t it like, but in the end, it could be a discovery and like more than what we expected.

Keep doing this exercise.

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