The Passion Hypothesis - Follow Your Passion

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The passion hypothesis is a common belief about career satisfaction that says the way to really love your work is to, step one, identify your natural, innate passion and two, match your work to that passion. The phrase "follow your passion" does not show up in the context o career advice until the late 19 eighties or early 90s. Noa: There 's three things that came together in the period leading up to the late eighties and early nineties that helped spur this particular hypothesis into life.

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