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Should You Follow Your Passion? [Anne-Laure Le Cunff]

The Examined Life

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The Jackhammer and the Hummingbird Approach to Happiness

I think it's a lot more realistic and healthier to just accept that life is made of fluctuations in terms of how you're feeling. And as long as you can keep on doing that little dance, this oscillation over the long term, you'll be fine. But if your goal is to stay too close to that line, I always having the straight line and always being perfectly happy or content or satisfied, you're probably actually going to end up showing really anxious all the time. So yeah, do you see yourself as a jackhammer or as a hummingbird?

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