Codie SanchezFounder @ Contrarian Thinking

Don’t Follow Your Passion…

15 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Codie Sanchez argues that following your passion can backfire. Chasing short-term joy causes long-term pain, and swinging away from hustle culture has made people overvalue ease. Instead, pick difficult work with high ROI on what matters to you, even if it hurts at first, like starting a gym routine.

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What are your thoughts on doing work that you love and doing work that you enjoy? I think we were sold a bag of lies when people told us to follow our passion and it will lead to profits. Are you chasing short term joy and not realizing that short term joy leads to long term pain? And I think most of us have been sold falsities lately. We got so much hustle culture back in the day that we like reacted against it and now we think that we can go around, float around, do whatever we want. We don't have any repercussions. I am saying if you get to choose between something that is hard but has a high ROI on the thing you care about, a high potential for what you really care about in life, do it even if it hurts. Nobody likes going to the gym to start, but then you actually end up loving the game.