is passion required for success?

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PASSION HYPOTHESIS

We all listen from our childhood that to be successful in any stream you have to be passionate about something,but when you watch successful people around you or in world,you noticed that many successful people find their career not by follow their passion but because of hard work and persistent about their work,even no passion in first impression about that particular work.Prime example is former Apple CEO steve jobs.In june 2005,steve jobs took the podium at stanford stadim to give speech to stanford?s graduating class.Jobs addressed a crowd of 23,000 with a short speech that drew lessons from his life.Jobs offered the following advice:-

You've got to find what you love.The only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle.

In other words, many of the millions of people who viewed this speech were excited to see steve jobs- a guru of iconoclastic thinking- put his stamp of approval on an immensely appealing piece of popular career advice.But when you watch the real story of steve jobs and the founding of apple computer.You could say-

Do what steve jobs did,not what he said.

If you had met a young steve jobs in the years leading up to his founding of apple computer,you wouldn't have pegged him as someone who was passionate about starting a technology company.

Jobs wasn't particularly interested in either business or electronics as a student.He instead studied western history and dance and dabbled in eastern mysticism.In 1974,a local engineer and entrepreneur Alex Kamradt started a computer time-sharing company dubbed call-in computer.Kamradt approached steve wozniak(steve jobs friend) to design a terminal device he could sell to clients to use for accessing his central computer.

Unlike jobs,Wozniak was a true electronics whiz who has obsessed with technology.On the flip side,Wozniak couldn't stomach business,so he allowed jobs,a longtime friend,to handle the details of the arrangement.

I tell this story because these are hardly the action of someone passionate about technology ,yet this was less than a year before jobs started Apple computer.In other words,in the months leading up to the start of his visionary company,steve jobs was something of a conflicted young man,dabbling in electronics only when it promised to earn him quick cash.

So,there are two theories in the world for be successful:-

1.Do,what you love

2.Love,what you do.

Choose smartly between two.