Golden: Early career advice should be to follow your like, not passion
Andy Golden · Andrew Golden – Beyond the Long Term (Capital Allocators, EP.13) · Jun 26, 2017 · at 1:07:37
Ted Seides asks Andy Golden, long-time head of Princeton University's endowment (PRINCO), what career advice he gives to young people.
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“There's a cliche about following your passion. I feel that it's true, except for I want to modify that and say, follow your like. The problem with telling someone follow your passion is it presupposes that they know what passion is, and, you know, it's almost like a dating situation. It's like saying, well, You should go out with the person that's going to be your spouse. Right? Like, well, I don't know that yet. Right? And I don't want to have to figure it out before I go out, and that's right, you should iterate on it. So I think you should, you know, really go down paths that have a real natural attraction to you, and, you know, not try and plan too far in advance.”
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