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Summary.
From commencement speeches to career advice columns, the call to “follow your passion” is all around us. The advice, increasingly doled out and internalized, is clear: Find work you love, and pursue it relentlessly. But a wealth of research shows that we don’t often get it right on the first try. Pursuing a passion can leave you burned out or misaligned with who you’ve become.
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