Why finding your passion is overrated

Jenny Bailey
Nov 1 · 4 min read

Overwhelmed.

Depressed.

Isolated.

This happens to sum up my experience of trying to “find my passion.”

For years, I felt every self-help guru preached about finding your passion and how it leads to happiness.

Then you would hear stories of how they knew they wanted to be a writer since they were…

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