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The Upside of Pursuing Your Passion And Dream

11 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this reflective monologue, the speaker weighs the choice between staying in a comfortable, low‑risk situation and actively pursuing one’s passions. They note that following a passion often brings higher anxiety and uncertainty, but also offers a much greater potential upside in terms of fulfillment, excitement, and positive emotions. The speaker frames the decision as a choice between accepting comfort that may later lead to regret and depression, versus confronting difficulty and risk to achieve deeper personal satisfaction.

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In the case of not pursuing your passions maybe it's a little bit of comfort, I don't know but obviously you're not going and doing that thing that you're passionate about so the upside is at the very least reduced in scope if you're doing the things that you're passionate about. Probably the anxiety the propensity or the possibility of anxiety is probably higher. The potential there right. But also the upside the potential upside is also much higher. And so I guess you get to this point where you say to yourself do I want some of the comfort with the risk of eventually falling into the regret and depression framework or am I willing to confront the difficulty of doing the things that I want to do knowing full well that doing that is hard? But am I willing to put myself out there and face that so that I can then do the things that I actually want to do and cultivate some really positive emotions whether it's fulfillment, excitement, whatever by virtue of doing that.