Why ‘Follow Your Passion’ Is the World’s Worst Career Advice
2nd November 2015
A few years ago, Jeff Katzenberg, the über-Hollywood mogul, sat onstage with me at a Milken conference and said that the worst career advice anyone can give is this: Follow your passion.
I couldn’t agree with him more, and I wrote about it here. The problem with this advice is that it’s so generic and so untrue that I feel sorry for people who heed it. There are plenty of people who are extremely successful doing things they’re not exactly passionate about. They just happen to be very good at what they do. There are also people who are undyingly passionate about something, but they’ll never make a career of it. They’ll remain poor, but at least they love what they do and are OK with that.