Following on our previous post “Why Following Your Passion is not (Necessarily) the Solution“, I was inpired by the author Cal Newport to use Google Ngram viewer to look at the history of the concept. The result is self-explanatory!
So, following your passion is an extremely modern concept (currently very trendy it seems) in particular when compared with some other related concepts such as life purpose, love work:
In summary we’ve been having life purpose for a century, we’ve been substantially loving work for even more than that, but we’ve only considered following our passion for two decades. Isn’t that strange? I guess we can all draw an interesting conclusion from this observation!
