"Telling someone to follow their passion -- from an entrepreneur's point of view -- is disastrous," says Cal Newport... "That advice has probably resulted in more failed businesses than all the recessions combined... because that's not how the vast majority of people end up owning successful businesses.”
"Passion is not something you follow," he adds. "Passion is something that will follow you as you put in the hard work to become valuable to the world."
Read more in LinkedIn. Reminds me of this similar perspective in the NYT from a few weeks ago.
Thanks, +Zuhair Khan
