How to find his vocation: it is difficult, but possible

Why advice, "Do what you love" - ​​not the best

Pretty hard to know what you love to do, find something that makes you live. For example, I love write. Sometimes, when some interesting topic seizes me when I learn something new and share it with other people, it seems to me that there is nothing better. But when not in the mood, it seems that I generally do not like it.

Recently, I took up the installation video. I can sit for hours, mounting the video, selecting music and pictures, and not so easy to tear me away from this session. But when you need to have a montage of a long boring videos, everything is not so great. So I love assembling really?

When we say "The thing that you really love," just seems something which can deal with all his life, what you will not get bored. You can imagine that doing one thing, even loved, the rest of his life?

We are told that we must love what we do, in that case we will work better. As said, Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) during a speech at Stanford University:

The only way to do something great - love what you're doing. If you still have not found such a case, keep looking. Do not give up.

Maybe it is so. But the idea that you have to do what I enjoy, somewhat limits you. What if you're not sure what you love for a thing? Sometimes you like it, and sometimes not. Should they engage in, or give up and look for "the one thing"?

You found it already or not, you see, is not easy. So maybe it is better to forget about this rule, do not strain to try to find something that you really love, and just love what you're doing? Here are three stories of successful creative people how to find their vocation, Work in which you will see sense.

Forget about talent, create favorite business

software developer Owen Katherine (Katrin Owen) tried many lessons, until I realized that in this way it does not find a case of life. For several years, Katherine tried to discover their talents, trying their hand at different fields.

I think, among other things, I wanted to be unusual, but what I really longed for, is to find your passion and feel the satisfaction that comes with the achievements.

Catherine Owen

Each new activity took it up as long as there were not any difficulties, then Catherine decided that she simply does not have abilities in this case, and was looking for something new.

I believe in the genius of genetic explanation. In that accident enough to stumble upon the business and you will become a key that fits the lock perfectly.

Catherine Owen

Many of us think that the passion - is what occurs as soon as you see and try some business. Nobody thinks that this can take years of work and to overcome the difficulties that passion will flare up slowly in the process.

In life, it is often the case. That there was a real passion for something, you have to overcome difficulties and pump their skills.

Passion arises when you give some cause enough attention and time to achieve the depth of understanding and grasp all the nuances. Talent - it's garbage. Skills can be purchased. You are responsible for your passion.

Catherine Owen

Through practice, hard enough to be a challenge for you, you develop skillsAnd your passion will grow with them.

Hate your job - not the worst thing that can be

Realizing that the passion for the cause does not necessarily arise from the very beginning, you will get more freedom. Understanding the fact that you can ignite the passion and develop skills in any business, gives you the freedom of choice of profession.

Now you will not give up at the first difficulty, thinking that it's just not your business. And if so, why should they do? You can start any project, do any new business, understanding that, although the pleasure of the process makes you continue, it difficulties can make this business a passion of your life.

It may be difficult to reconcile with the fact that you are doing something unloved or, worse, forced to do things you hate, and hope that the acquired skills awaken the passion to engage.

I think everyone experiences a mixture of admiration and disgust for the people who work for the unloved job for so long that they begin to love her.

Executive Director Basecamp Jason Fried (Jason Fried) wrote about this problem. He said that many people who founded the company or producing new products, more than inspired by a disgusting state of affairs than to love what they were doing.

People love to romanticize their motivation and history. They talk about what is important now and forget about the motives that moved them in the beginning. Travis Kalanick (Travis Kalanick) and Garrett Camp (Garrett Camp), co-founders of Uber, created a service not because they loved the transport and logistics. They started because they put out it impossible to travel by taxi in San Francisco. Maybe now Kalanik Uber loves, but then it just infuriated by the inability to get home.

It may be difficult to relate this idea with the desire to engage in favorite thingBut...

Hatred of the existing order of things together with a vision of how things can be quickly lead you to success than the love for what you're working on.

Jason Fried

I doubt it, but only as long as try

Graphic designer Sean McCabe (Sean McCabe) worked in different fields ranging from computer repair to the development of logos, from doing podcasts to writing books. But the biggest jump in his career came when he as the designer focused on cursive.

Sean used his experience to help other people understand what to focus on one area of ​​interest - is the best way to make a name for themselves and gain fame at a certain audience.

But for most of us it is a daunting prospect. After all, if you need to choose a niche and give the cause all my time and attention, you can choose one thing of all, and where is the guarantee that this is exactly what you need?

Most people are afraid to choose a niche, because they think, "I'm more than that. I can do much more. The world needs to see everything, what I'm good. "

Sean McCabe

To overcome fear, Sean offers relate to the period of full concentration on one thing as a season work. The fact that you are completely concentrated on one thing right now, does not mean that you will not be able to do something else later.

But without that period of concentrating on one thing, without a full, unconditional return, you never know, you will be able to ignite a passion for the selected case or not.

What do you think? Is it possible to fall in love with any business or there is only one, "the thing" and you just have to find it?