[bobbin_cygna]

> 'Be Passionate' is great advice.

I've never understood that. It seams to me that you either feel passion or you don't. If you are already passionate you don't need the advice, but if you don't, what are you supposed to do? say "OK, I'll be passionate from now on"?

Same with "be confident".

[daleharvey]

you can learn to be confident

and as for "be passionate", I dont see if as something you learn, but if you arent passionate and realise that is an important fact, you can redirect your efforts to something you are passionate about.

[joe_the_user]

"you can learn to be confident"

I agree and if you give someone detailed, effective directions on how to do that learning, you may have indeed authentically given them good advice.

But if you only tell to "be confident" then you haven't really given them the details they can use for anything.

[gcheong]

I think the idea that everyone has some thing that they are deeply passionate about is rather flawed. I think it's nice to have it but it's not necessary and nobody should let it stop them if they don't.

[netcan]

What you say makes sense, but I'm not sure it applies to people. People can decide to believe things, why can't they decide to be passionate?

[cubix]

Passion isn't a belief, it's an emotion -- just like you can't simply decide to be happy, sad, or afraid.

[fragmede]

There's got to be something you're passionate about in life, and if your current line of work is not amenable to it, the advice, heeded or not, is to find a new line of work.

[ScottBurson]

Or if you really don't know what your passion is -- and many don't -- try some things! Particularly if you're young and single; now is the time in life you should be experimenting, unless you're one of the relative few who already know what they want to do.

[DrJokepu]

What that advice really means is that you should find something you're passionate about and do that. Obviously it's hard or maybe even impossible to force yourself to become passionate about something that you are not. But you can find something that makes you feel passionate. And that's what you should work on.

[icegreentea]

Instead of "be confident" or passionate or whatever, try "act with confidence" or "do with passion". Eventually, by doing so enough times, you eventually will become.