Do what you love VS love what you do

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Do you love or do you love what you do?

Passion is not what you follow, but what you follow when you work hard and become valuable to the world.

Rare passion

It is easy for everyone to confuse interests with passion that can achieve career or business achievements. Cal said, in fact, the previous one has little value. If you don't believe it, you can think about whether or not you are willing to pay for your hobbies.

Money is important, at least relatively speaking. Money is a neutral indicator of value. Potential customers do not care about your passion. They care about giving up money (likewise, the same is true for potential employers ). Therefore, it is difficult for others to pay for your passion, or to pay for what you think is sufficient, to become the foundation of your career. It's just a hobby. Of course, you can still love your hobbies. But I love it in my spare time.

For entrepreneurs or employees, the key is to find meaningful passion.

Hobbies take time

The love for "hobbies" is very different from the kind of love found in startup/career.

It is the true meaning of love to make something important, gain respect from it, and gain a sense of control over your own life and contact with others.

Work can be divided into three types: Job, career, and calling ). Work is money, career is the path to a better job, and mission is such a kind of work-it is an important part of your life and a key component of your identity. Obviously, most people want their work to be the third type.

How can we see that a person regards his work as a mission? The more experience you have, the more likely you are to fall in love with your work. Because the more experience, the better the skill, and the more satisfied you are. The more experience you have, the more you will see your work to benefit others, and have more time to establish a better career and personal relationship with other employees, suppliers and customers. In terms of business success, love is almost always a result of time and effort, rather than a prerequisite for success.

Love is an excellent side effect

Cal also pointed out that the myth about masters of art is also a problem. Most people think that art people have extraordinary talent when they are young.

In reality, most skilled people come to access the same thing in an interesting way. For example, a musician may be interested in a song, an instrument, or a teacher. Then start to practice and then benefit from the so-called feedback effect.

Cal says that after hard work becomes the best in a group of students, this status will in turn inspire you to continue to practice. And then become the best among the larger groups, which in turn becomes an incentive. Exercise and success are a step-by-step process of self-reinforcement.

If the job is interesting and you think there is a market-that means someone is willing to pay for your job. That's enough. You can start. The work itself will give you the feedback you need.

Making a feasible product will inspire you to develop your own skills, so as to optimize this product or create more products. Winning a customer will inspire you to develop more skills to win more customers. The greater the Conference of responsibility and power, the more skills you will be encouraged to continue to climb up.

If you are satisfied with a certain level of success, you will be encouraged to improve your skills to reach a new level. For example, you will be able to continue until one day you wake up and feel extremely satisfied.

There will be a deep sense of satisfaction for the satisfaction of the improvement. The process of becoming very good at something valuable is itself a process of self-enrichment and satisfaction ...... This is the foundation of a great entrepreneurial career.

Working correctly is better than finding the right job.

Do you want to love what you do? Find an interesting thing. Find something that can economically support yourself-something that someone else is willing to pay for what you do or provide.

Then work hard. Improve skills required for management, sales, creation, implementation, and other occupations. Inspire you to work hard with the enrichment and satisfaction you have gained from winning small victories.

Once you start your business or career, focus on creating something that will ultimately bring you self-esteem, autonomy, and influence.

Don't focus on the value your work brings to you. It is a hobby. Instead, focus on the value you create through your work: how important your behavior is, how you are good at what you do, and how you do a good job in relationships with others.

When you do it, passion will follow-if you work hard enough, one day you will be fine and they will not be able to ignore you.

The premise of doing what you love is that this kind of hobby can support yourself,
What you love is the result of persistence and skill.

What do you think? Is the mission rooted in love, or is love the result of developing a certain interest in hard work but not knowing whether it is a skill of love?