ARTICLE: Find Your Passion With These 8 Thought-Provoking Questions | Co.Design | business + design
“To launch ourselves anew, we need to get out of our heads,” she says. “We need to act.” That means devising a series of trials and errors: Ibarra advises looking for temporary assignments, outside contracts, advisory work, and moonlighting to get experience or build skills in new industries; executive programs, sabbaticals, and extended vacations also can be valuable in providing opportunities to experiment. She concludes, “We learn who we are--in practice, not in theory--by testing reality.”I'm still searching for meaning and searching for purpose. This article by Warren Berger has lots of great advice to help you find your passion. I like where he suggests analyzing what you loved to do as a child and to re-examine that for a possible career path.
If that were to be me, it would be making jewelry, painting, drawing, photography, playing on computers and making web pages, and always learning. I always had an insatiable hunger for new experiences and new information. I used to browse libraries just for fun, build websites to impress my friends and share my photos, and spend hours building a beaded necklace or creating some other craft.
Why does college have to get us so distracted? I mistakenly chose my major based on a future career income I found in a report of some kind. Not based on what I loved to do. I needed a Return On Investment (or so I thought) instead of an opportunity to expand my already existent interests.
Anyways, I'm still on the journey. Check out the article though, great advice for anyone looking for direction or insight!
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