It's only correct if you are following your passion to achieve some other end. If it's means based, then everything this guy says is completely wrong. Under a means based approach, you wouldn't care about great fame/recognition, because, for instance, painting everyday and being a community college arts teacher to support yourself is sufficient to make you happy.
I do agree 100% with what he says about systems vs goals.
I think what they probably mean is just try to have fun in life. So be passionate about who you are, rather than about what you would be willing to achieve in life. Because it's simply impossible for everyone to be CEO of the world.
Bill Gates recently posted some graphics showing where most people live in the world. Needless to say, most were in China and India. If they all wanted to be CEO of the world, we'd have a problem. :-) https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/566375184790462465
Scott Adams is a nobody in other cultures. I don't know why we would need more economists telling the world how the world is supposed to work. Maybe China and India need to be more capitalists or something. :-)
Cheers.
Re:Passion Is Overrated
by carsongross on Sunday February 15, 2015 @12:21AM
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Mr. Adams explanation, that the plain and ugly truth would be bad PR and most successful people are not idiots who are oblivious to the costs of said bad PR, seems plausible to me.
Millions of hungry artists and musicians and philosophy majors can tell you that "do what you love and the money will follow" is utter bullshit, and it doesn't take a genius to see why. So it is weird how so many obviously successful people keep repeating such a pants-on-head stupid platitude. I wonder if they've actually just never considered that there are lives and experiences unlike their own, or if they subconsciously shy away from narratives that don't make them the most awesome person in the room.