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4. They don’t care what you think.
I don’t mean this observation to sound snarky, but the truth is that people who genuinely love what they do don’t allow others to talk them out of it. Imagine someone who all their life wanted to work with animals in some way. Maybe as a trainer, or researcher, of veterinarian – just in some way, because that’s the “juice” that compels them. And then one day in school along comes an allegedly knowledgeable career counselor who tells this person that, while it’s “nice” to dream about working with furry woodland creatures, the reality is that pursuing a career along those lines is fanciful. Consider practicality, consider the hard and fast realities of life – consider everything else except the juice.
Too bad most of us, particularly back in school, didn’t have the gumption and wherewithal to tell that person, “Thanks but no thanks – I’ll take the juice.” Those of us who make it through those impasses, guarded by naysayers aplenty, are much more likely to love what they do than those talked into a contrived conventionality. But, the good news is, even if we took bad advice back then, there are still opportunities afterward to get back to what fuels our passions. It won’t come easy, but precious little worth having ever does. To put a psychological bead on this observation: people who love what they do are self-actualized in the best sense of the term.
To be continued...