Harvard Research: To Be Successful, Chase Your Purpose, Not Your Passion

Jessica Stillman
3 min readJan 11, 2022

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“Follow your passion” is one of the most frequently repeated bits of work advice. It’s also one of the most frequently criticized, and for good reason.

Experts suggest that, for most of us, hard work makes us passionate for a field rather than the other way around. We develop passion for what we do over time, rather than starting out with a…

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Jessica Stillman

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