Item #6259
Category: Careers
Title: Stanford researchers: Following your passion makes you less successful
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">If your college graduation speaker told you to “follow your passion,”you may want to ignore them<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">According to an upcoming paper in Psychological Science written by threeStanford researchers, that advice may actually make people less successful,since it unrealistically implies an easy path to success and narrows your focustoo much<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">Stanford psychologists Carol Dweck and Gregory Walton, with the help offormer Stanford postdoctoral fellow Paul O’Keefe, conducted a series oflaboratory studies that examined the belief systems that lead people to succeedor fail<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="position: relative; padding-right: 30px; color: rgb(62, 72, 85); font-family: Averta, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">The researchers recruited participants from two categories: those whowere passionate about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), andthose who were passionate about humanities and the arts.<o:p></o:p></p>
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