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Originally Posted by Unregistered
"Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle." quoted from Steve Jobs.
So does passion lead to money, or money leads to passion?
I vote for the latter.
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Steve Jobs was correct because his passion turned him on a uphill ride. He has the rights to give the inspiring speech and did the right thing to ask everyone to follow him in the pursuant for passion, which will bring better years. He was correct because... he succeeded.
It's the same whenever I watched the Taiwan version of Amercian Idol. Cannot remember the name but in spite of every participant's 'dreams and passions', there could only be one winner. And the rest of them left the stage with tears and some even went on to push the blame on others. But the failures failed to see that there's only one winner on stage.
While the route taken by Steve Jobs may not be lonely, as there could be many other winners in technology pioneering, we have to take note that it's always the winners making stage claims. Kudos to Steve Jobs for his contribution, but his claims to passions ought to be taken objectively, and well thought.
I'll just sum up with this: Always count the costs if one wants to pursue passion and not career in Singapore. Take note, it's SINGAPORE.
When young, I always wanted to be a Scientific Dimensional Researcher, or anything to do with astronomy, but Singapore just didn't have the market and my grades also didn't make it. I didn't continue my passion though.