Last week, I had the privilege of speaking at a careers event. Over 100 bright-eyed students/young working adults were packed into a hotel ballroom, listening to entrepreneurs and industry titans talk about their careers. Pretty much everyone who stepped on stage said some variation of “follow your passion”. Find what you love! If you love what you’re doing, you’ll never work a day in your life! It’s important to be passionate about this industry! Oh man. Now, I’m pretty sure that these people are passionate about what they do, but I think they have it backwards. The conventional notion about passion says: Discover what your passion is, just follow it, and you’ll succeed. The trouble is, I’m pretty sure most people aren’t born with some innate “passion” to begin with. When I asked the audience how many of them had already found their passion, less than a quarter of them put ......