Name: 【TEDx】To find work you love, don't follow your passion | Benjamin Todd | TEDxYouth@Tallinn
Uploaded: 2017-10-26T11:45:36.000Z
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I didn't know what career I wanted to choose.

but which interest should I pursue and try and turn into a job?

So, back then, I was really interested in martial arts.

But I didn't want to turn that into a career.

I was really interested in, and I was studying philosophy,

but one of the philosophers I most enjoyed reading -

and there's no job in philosophy, anyway.

I was really interested in investing and finance,

and I had even taken a portion of the small savings I had,

and invested them into gold when I was a teenager.

I knew that following the finance root would be a really well-paid career,

maybe I wouldn't make as much difference as I could in that,

so in the end, it wouldn't really be that fulfilling.

"How could I choose a fulfilling career?"

And, maybe many of you have asked yourself the same question.

I realized I didn't even know how to go about choosing a career,

and I, you know, read books, I went to careers advisors,

I just couldn't really find the information I really needed:

Which areas is there a great social need where I can make a difference?

kind of, delay the decision by a few years.

Instead of actually settling on a career,

I founded an organization dedicated to researching the question

And this organization is called "80000hours,"

that's the number of hours you have in your working life,

so, it's worth really doing some serious research,

and try to work out how best to use them.

it's part of a free online careers guide: 80000hours.org.

surrounded by laptops and whiteboards, as normal.

So, you might at this point be thinking to yourself,

"Well, you hardly look like you're above the legal age to drink,

what could you tell me about choosing a career?"

Well, it's true that one of the main things we discovered

Choosing a career is a complex problem and not enough serious research

doing research with academics of University of Oxford,

we've coached hundreds of people on how to make real career decisions.

All this research and thinking has led us to the conclusion

that careers advice today focuses on the wrong thing.

people basically did what their parents did.

But our generation grew up with some different careers advice,

and that's that you should follow your passion.

increased dramatically from the mid-nineties.

But today I think need to move beyond "Follow your passion,"

and instead of asking what our own interests and passions are,

on what we can do for other people, and to make the world a better place.

how would "follow your passion" apply to me?

I think what "Follow your passion" tells you to do is three things:

the first is to identify your greatest interests;

second, find careers that match those interests;

thirdly, pursue those careers, no matter what.

is just a matter of having the courage to pursue your passion.

I was interested in martial arts and philosophy, remember?

I should obviously become a Shaolin monk -

then you really enjoy your work, you're really motivated,

and if you are successful doing something you're passionate about,

this really does sound like pretty reasonable advice, right?

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【TEDx】To find work you love, don't follow your passion | Benjamin Todd | TEDxYouth@Tallinn

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