How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love

“The advice to follow your passion can be intimidating at best and harmful at worst.”

Instead, I recommend you follow whatever’s currently giving you energy. Imagine you have nine lives to choose from—but you can’t go back in time. They all start today. The first life is whatever you’re doing right now. The other eight are things you would jump out... See more

Here are some thoughts that I have about this game:

• Spending all of your time doing stuff that you don't like because you think more money or more prestige down the road will be worth it only guarantees that you spend all of your time doing things that you don't like.


• Being good at what you are supposed to do is overrated.


• There is a 1:1 correlation b

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