Ellen’s struggle with identifying her own passion

Piyush Gupta
PeerStory
Published in
2 min readJul 10, 2018

This story is about a girl, Ellen, who followed her interests to guide her career choices and yet found her helpless at the end. This is not only Ellen’s story but every common person. According to a study, about two-thirds of college grads struggle to launch their careers (read more). Finding our passions is an unsolved mystery that the authors unfolds in this book very carefully.

Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash

This story is picked from the book Designing Your Life, Introduction: Life by Design written by two professors at Stanford’s Design School — Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.

Other Relevant Book: There’s life after college by Jeffrey J Selingo

Share this story to help others trying to find their passion, while what they need to learn is to be able to design their life.

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