Stop Searching For Your Passion

The text “Stop Searching For Your Passion” is an extract from a transcript of a TED Talk given by Terri Trespicio in 2015. 

The text begins with Trespicio talking about being laid off from her job at Martha Stewart, an American media and lifestyle company. Trespicio talks about the pressure of pursuing the passion that drove her in her former job and about her belief that people should not focus on pursuing a single passion, ignoring any other career choice. 

Trespicio then talks about peer pressure developing from youth, after graduation. According to her, young people are pushed to find a single passion, although they find the pressure rather intimidating. Trespicio believes that passions are temporary and can always change and that people should be more real...