Graduating and Looking for Your Passion? Just Be Patient

For all their grandeur and euphoria, graduation ceremonies can be harrowing. Until that momentous day, you’re a student whose job is to do what your teacher asks. Now you have to ask things of yourself — but what?

If you’re relying on a commencement speaker to set your compass, you may still be confused at day’s end. In my experience, it’s common to hear "Follow your passion" from the podium. This is great counsel if, in fact, you know what that passion is. But what if you don’t?

By ANGELA DUCKWORTH

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