<p>I am a sophomore but I already feel tired of finding my true passion. Whenever I thought I am good at something, I go to the next level of that course and I get screwed so hard I lose passion. I still get mostly A but I just don't know what I am truly good at. Do you learn your passion much later like as a Junior/ Senior ??</p>
<p>You know something is your true passion is when you enjoy it, not necessarily excel or become good at it. Your passion might not be academic; it may be related to sports, the arts, or anything, really. Things like these are often an epiphany moment. They can be found much later in life, or much earlier. For now, try different activities, and see what you enjoy. You may be searching for it, but over time, it will search for you. </p>
<p>I’m so confuse in what you mean by passion.</p>
<p>getting a bunch of electric shocks made electronics my passion. the pranks are cool. :D</p>
<p>i guess the more you struggle at a certain thing, the more passionate you become at something.</p>
<p>@XxSkizzyxX passion is a subject or area of subject that you both do well while also enjoying it a lot. Something that you will pursue in college to get a degree and will be what your career revolves around.</p>
<p>Oh Lol. How I got my passion in Computer Science because I get to program a robot to move. As I continue on, I made a lot of mistake but I enjoyed making mistake with my group member. Then we were told about the UC Davis RoboPlay and how we can get picked to go, but if you don’t want to, they won’t force you. I got excited by it and continued with programming and remembered the basic code. Then when the UC Davis RoboPlay was happening, I was the only person from my class and the rest were from a different class. We didn’t win but we got a award for perseverance. </p>
<p>This all happened in my freshman year and I plan on taking it next year as a TA. You can get passion on something if you are there at the right time or you enjoy doing it. There were times when it got really hard but it didn’t happen a lot of time because I really enjoyed programming.</p>
<p>just expose yourself to a lot of things and it’ll happen</p>
<p>The word “passion” is really overused on here because college admissions people talk about it sometimes, but I don’t think most high school students have a passion for anything. I don’t have one either, so I’m not really qualified to talk about it, but I’ve always thought of passion as something that can develop over time after you make a choice to work hard at something (generally something you have aptitude for, but not necessarily). It’s not something the world just thrusts on you. I’m guessing most people aren’t passionate about their day jobs, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing because it’s possible to stop liking something when it becomes obligatory. </p>
<p>I have a passion for writing.</p>
<p>I know teachers who are passionate about their jobs.</p>
<p>That’s really all I can add to the discussion.</p>
<p>Most people don’t develop their passions until later, granted they even have one.</p>
<p>For most jobs you’ll find someone who’s passionate about it, and teachers are probably more passionate on average than others because there aren’t many other reasons to go into teaching. But I would still say most people aren’t passionate about their jobs, even now that we live in an age where some people can sort of choose their jobs. </p>
<p>heather, not in my country. people who don’t get any other jobs with university education go to teaching (in most cases). i found at most 6 teachers out of probably 50 in my life who loved teaching.</p>
<p>Pretty much agree with everyone else. Some people never find a passion. The only thing you can do is to keep exposing yourself to new things, and when you like something, don’t give up too easy. Personally I think I am lucky enough to have a few, and you find them all in random places. I found Computer Science through a graphics class combined with fantasy football, Philosophy slowly developed, and I found music when I heard a specific genre and have been listening to that type of music since.</p>
<p>The point is, technically, I only found one of my passions anywhere near school. I find its easier to work in the reverse: find something you love to do(could do hours and hours on end by choice), and then see how you can work it into your life. That may mean academics or some other method. Also, I wasn’t looking for passion when I found any of them. You really just stumble into it. Once you do make that initial contact though, make sure you find a way to work it into your daily life. If you’re truly passionate about it, it will make your life significantly more enjoyable.</p>
<p>The only people I’ve seen in my life who are extremely passionate are people are ones who do sports and love math [insert sarcasm].</p>
<p>Some people find passion at a late year and that is completely fine, Ray Kroc built MacDonalds at age 52 because he believed that his endeavor was to explode the popularity of small food chains in the nation, John Pemberton developed coca cola trying to save people from morphine addiction at age 55. Passion can be found in weird places and we never know when we come across it, and there is never a certain time you find your passion.</p>
<p>I think your passion does not need to be your future job, people get tied up with the idea that your passion needs to be what you do in the future. If you can get a good job through your passion, or you just love it so much you want to commit to it, that’s completely fine because it works out. Passion and skill is different, when we go to the real world we need to make money and live, we get paid for working. For an example lets say I love art, especially painting now general reception is that “you can’t get paid”, “you wont be rich” (graphic designing/web designing is another story), so it is best that I don’t make it an life long endeavor instead to keep it as a small “interest”/“passion” which I can commit to even if I get a job completely unrelated to my passion. </p>
<p>Sorry for a long post but this is my thought on passion.</p>
<p>Honestly, it can take you a lifetime to find your passion. I urge you to try again for a few of the things that became too difficult. People change and passions can change. Look at it this way, Cat Stevens really loved music, but he suddenly gave it all up. However, after becoming religious, he still tied music into that because that is what he loves doing. He is also passionate about his religion. My point is that sometimes you can have more than one passion. Don’t limit yourself. You’re can discover a newfound passion for something while driving yourself away from that same thing. Just take a day to browse the internet, the library, or take a walk. Give yourself time to think about what you want to do. Heck, just do what you want to do. Do something fun. When you’re enjoying yourself, you will think positively and you’ll probably be more creative since your happiness will make the world feel like your oyster. I was sure that physics and astronomy were MY thing. As I learned more about this world, mainly how it works, I started to realize that I wanted to really delve deeper into what’s going on in the world (not earth science, with the magma layer, core, etc.). I had always been an observer and I know that I have always wanted to know how everything works. I was really interested in how people communicated and I really like puzzling concepts. So I thought of linguistics. I have always wanted to know every thing about languages and for how long we have been communicating these words and how we really got here. So through physics I figured out that I really love languages. Maybe you may not be a fan of politics or history, but you may love fiction rather than a collection of facts, and perhaps you’d love to analyze meaning and behavior in Hamlet or Great Expectations. Who knows. Please remember to be open-minded and to not give up. You can learn so much from…everything. </p>
<p>I think saying you’re passionate about a field is comparable to saying you love a person, and I guess that’s why it’s weird to me when high school students say they have a passion for an academic field they’ve probably only been exposed to at a very basic level. (Of course high school students can learn a lot about some field beyond what their classes require, and there are probably a lot of people on here who do that because this is College Confidential.) All subjects can be made to sound fascinating at the high school level if you have the right kind of teacher, but passion means loving something for what it really is in practice. Some high school classes give you a good idea of this, and some don’t. </p>