Should You Follow Your Passion or Follow the Money?

Follow your passion versus follow the money is the career advice debate that has launched a thousand arguments between parents and their children. The passion camp argues that life is too short to spend 40 hours a week doing something you hate, that intrinsic motivation produces better work, and that people who love what they do never work a day in their lives. The money camp argues that passion is a privilege, that financial security enables happiness far more reliably than any job title, and that you can be passionate about things outside work. Cal Newport's famous book argued that passion follows mastery, not the other way around. When people vote honestly about which advice they would give their own child — what does the world say?

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