How to do what you love:

[grrim]

You shouldn't worry about prestige. Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like. • If you do anything well enough, you make it prestigious. Plenty of things we now consider prestigious were anything but at first. Jazz comes to mind-

Comments

[gomeza]

That's a damned good essay. Now if only I can figure out how to take it to heart and work it into my worldview / belief system.

[daoine_o]

very moving and oh-so-true...should be required reading for many!

[crankles]

Love it! And especially when you're young, prestige gets lumped in with talent and skill, as though getting one means you have the other.