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How To Find Your Passion, No Bullshit

Ricardo Guaderrama Caraveo
7 min readMar 5, 2020

Follow your passion, follow your bliss, once you realize why is that you’re in this world, everything will be easy. God, every time I hear this bs I feel like vomiting.

“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”― Mark Twain

This kind of advice does not seem to be fit for the 21st century or any century really, or it is true, but later, once you’ve realized a few things, but first, you need to realize a thing or two about life.

It must be fantastic to wake up when you’re 15 years old knowing that you want to be an astronaut and that’s it, decision made, you’re going to be an astronaut.

But this is obviously not how it works. First, you need to throw in the fact that you’re more highly or less likely to become an astronaut depending on your household’s income and the thousand other factors that don’t determine, but that do influence if becoming an astronaut happens or not. Like when I was in 4th grade and decided that I wanted to build a spaceship. Some of my friends hopped in and began drawing the interior rooms, some others were planning the food supply for the trip to the moon (hey, we were being…

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Ricardo Guaderrama Caraveo
Ricardo Guaderrama Caraveo

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