"You've got to find what you love. And that's is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work will fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any relationship, it just keeps getting better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle." ~ Steve Jobs.
Steve Job's commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 is one of the many speeches i think all Nigerian youths should listen to. My point of focus here is the doing what you love part of the speech. He was saying that we should do what we love, yes! that cliche of finding your passion, which i think is also underrated.
Just like most of us seek our human-love, the same should be applied to our career. Most people will stop at nothing to ask someone else that they admire out on a date, but when it comes to the career-love aspect, you just don't give a damn! and then you become so reluctant and display so much laxity.
According to what he said, the relationship will only get better and better as time passes by, both for your human-love and your career-love and you know what? this is absolutely true. The relationship between you and the right career for you is also nurtured and improved as time goes by.
When you have the wrong human match, a hostile environment exists most of the time and this is accompanied by constant disagreements and arguments leading to a significant amount of bad stress which ruins your health progressively. The same applies to your career-love, that's why you've got to make the right match.
It will also be sensible to point out that the journey is not always smooth and filled with milk and honey when you are 'living your passion', just like in a nice and healthy relationship, there are little bumps here and there and challenges also arise from time to time to put your resilience, character and attitude and discipline to the test and to also make you a better, stronger and an improved version of yourself.
"If you wanna shine like a diamond, you gotta get cut like a diamond." ~ Eric Thomas.
You've got to test the waters, avoid any limitations and take as many risks as possible (especially when you have no wife and kids yet) to find your passion and start living it. You won't find your passion by staying in your room all day, watching movies, eating and sleeping all day, it's very necessary that you get the hell out of your comfort zone!. You've got to sort for your career-love genuinely. Your life will never be the same.
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