The "Follow your passion" advice

Looking around 蔡康永's Instagram:

別隨性的想把興趣變成職業。 只是興趣的時候，不需要任何人點頭。你愛怎麼唱歌、煮菜、愛怎麼設計你家、或投資股票，都是你自己的事。 一旦把興趣變成職業，就需要遭遇的每個人點頭。興趣變成了任務，花園變成了戰場。 與其做喜歡的事，不如做擅長的事。 留著花園種花吧。🌷 【 康永 ~ 給殘酷社會的善意短信 】

Basically, he says that once your passion becomes career, you might have to seek other people's approval. Passion might feel like a mission or a battlefield. Yes, it might.

I once went to a dinner with a group of friends. One of the girl pointed out to another girl who has been determined to study accounting that there's no way you wanted to do that by your own interest. It's because your parents and the society led you to think that it's a desirable career choice. I thought about that afterwards and I think she's right on her point. However, how would one know that she doesn't like accounting if she didn't give it a chance? Here's a detail: the girl who made the comment likes dancing. She has done it ever since she is little and would probably have no problem saying that dancing is her passion.

I can't stand the "follow your passion" advice, because to me, that sounds like the decision should based strictly on what you already know, instead of encouraging young people to try out new things. I know ... the generation who has invented that saying probably didn't meant that. But too often, young people seem like they take that advice literally. What I'm saying is that society shouldn't send to all young people the "follow your passion" advice. It's seems nice on its own, but that understates other important elements.All things said, I would totally support a friend who, after consideration of all cost, still decided to follow his passion. I think that is very admirable.

Here's another version of the idea and a nice summary of where does "follow your passion" come from and what should be said instead.

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