Should you follow your passion when choosing a career?

“More than anything else, what I tell young people is that you’ve got to find that thing you’re passionate about. It might be literature, it might be medicine, it might be law, whatever it is that you want to take on. Find out what you’re passionate about and then really understand what your greatest aspirations are in achieving something that will be lasting in that area of your passion.”

This was the take-home message in a speech I attended my freshman year at Dartmouth College. The speaker was our incoming President, Jim Yong Kim, who would Dartmouth for three years before moving on to act as President of the World Bank for the next seven years.

I remember being inspired by the speech.