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‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice

October 5, 2025/

“Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” is another college-counseling standby of unknown provenance.

But according to Dweck and others, that advice is steering people wrong.

A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers.

By Olga Khazan


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