How to do what you love

Paul Graham has written an article on doing what you love. It closely mirrors what I have been realizing over the years that work is not necessarily boring and something which you should do because you have to do it, nor that you need to know with clarity in college/school as to what you are going to do. Don't forget, Einstien was labelled as a slow learner in school !

some quotes from the article:

Here's an upper bound: Do what you love doesn't mean, do what you would like to do most this second.

...try to do things that would make your friends say wow.

The test of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it even if they weren't paid for it-- even if they had to work at another job to make a living.

Although doing great work takes less discipline than people think-- because the way to do great work is to find something you like so much that you don't have to force yourself to do it-- finding work you love does usually require discipline.

Don't decide too soon. Kids who know early what they want to do seem impressive, as if they got the answer to some math question before the other kids. They have an answer, certainly, but odds are it's wrong....
... Now she has a life chosen for her by a high-school kid.