Sunday Pick: The perils of following your career passion
TED Talks Daily
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4.1 • 11.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Each Sunday, TED shares an episode we think you'll love, handpicked for you… by us. Today: an episode from WorkLife with Adam Grant, the podcast that explores the science of making work not suck.
Is “do what you love” terrible advice? Adam investigates why taking the job that will make you happiest is not as helpful as looking for the one where you’ll learn the most.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey TED Talks daily listeners, I'm Elise Hugh. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we have a special treat for you an episode of another |
| 0:14.6 | podcast from the TED Audio Collective hand-picked for you by us. Ted has tons of |
| 0:19.8 | podcasts that go beyond the TED Talk and help you spark your curiosity. |
| 0:24.0 | For more, visit audio collective dot Ted.com |
| 0:28.0 | and check out work life with Adam Graham |
| 0:30.0 | wherever you get your podcasts. If you want to build the Iron Man suit, you can do that! |
| 0:44.0 | We can do that! |
| 0:48.0 | You know an inspiring commencement speech when you hear one. |
| 0:51.0 | It's electrifying. You feel so pumped up that you're ready to paint the |
| 0:55.2 | ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, climb El Capitan without any ropes, or build that Iron Man suit. |
| 1:02.3 | As a professor, I've heard quite a few graduation speeches, and I've noticed that speakers |
| 1:06.9 | don't just show passion. |
| 1:08.6 | They talk about it, a lot. |
| 1:11.0 | Here's Steve Jobs from 2005 on the importance of having passion in your career. |
| 1:15.6 | And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. |
| 1:19.3 | And Jody Foster in 2006. |
| 1:21.5 | And how lucky to find yourself with the option of filling your life |
| 1:24.8 | with passions. John Legend in 2014. Pursue this life of love with passion. And |
| 1:31.6 | Lin Manuel Miranda in 2016 talking about what it's like to search for your career passion. |
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