Puri: 'Follow your passion' advice fails because few people have clear passions
Shaan Puri · How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps) · Jan 8, 2025 · at 2:50
In a guest lecture at UC Berkeley, entrepreneur and investor Shaan Puri critiques standard career guidance given to recent college graduates.
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“And most people who talk to you online or in person will tell you just follow your passion. But I don't know about you. I personally, I liked the idea, but I did not know what my passion actually was. If you told me what your passion when I was in school, I don't know. I would have said recess because there was not something that I was so passionate about that. I just thought, oh, wow, this is it. This is my true calling. Maybe there's some people out there that are that lucky, but I wasn't one of them. And so that advice didn't really work for me.”
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