Style of language

The text “Stop Searching For Your Passion” by Terri Trespicio has a mixed style that varies throughout the talk, using both formal and informal elements. 

Formal features can be seen when Trespicio talks about the danger of pursuing a single passion in life:

It always had and that’s because there’s a dangerously limiting idea at the heart of everything we believe about success and life in general. And it’s that you have one singular passion and your job is to find it and to pursue it to the exclusion of all else. (ll. 6-8)

In this example, Trespicio uses complex sentences that help her present her attitude towards career and passion. 

However, the text mainly uses spoken language, which helps Trespicio come across as approachable and relatable. Trespicio uses terms such as “right” (l. 14), “you know” (l. 14), “anyway” (l. 25), and “honest...