{"id":4278,"date":"2018-10-30T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:55:51","slug":"kaya-follow-your-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/10\/30\/kaya-follow-your-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaya: Follow Your Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"
Don\u2019t follow your passions. <\/span><\/div>\n

I know, I know, that sounds like bad advice \u2014 terrible, even. After all, isn\u2019t college about pursuing what you\u2019re passionate about and taking advantage of all the opportunities you have to do so?<\/p>\n

To an extent, yes. You shouldn\u2019t throw your passions out the window altogether to do things you hate. Knowing what you\u2019re passionate about and exploring that is a key step toward discovering what you want to do for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should clarify: Don\u2019t follow your passions. At least, don\u2019t <\/span>only <\/span>follow your passions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Follow your curiosity instead.<\/p>\n

Because while following your passions can lead you to new discoveries, further your academic and career pursuits, or inspire you to reach new heights, doing things you\u2019re passionate about can also be stressful \u2014 <\/span>really <\/span>stressful \u2014 because you love those things so much. Every mistake or roadblock that separates you from what you love can feel like heartbreak, and it\u2019s not exactly a feeling anyone wants to feel all the time. If you spend your whole life doing and chasing what you love, you\u2019re bound to hit some of those roadblocks, and feel some of that heartbreak, along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you follow your curiosity instead, you might discover something new that you love. You might have an experience that takes you completely out of your comfort zone. You might realize that there is a lot more to life than the one or two things you\u2019re most passionate about.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re like me, you might apply for a radio internship on a whim, and realize that there\u2019s so much more to journalism than you thought. Or you might end up in a class about food history, like I did, and decide to become a history minor \u2014 something that high school me never thought I\u2019d do in a million years, because I was so dead-set on my passion for journalism and writing.<\/p>\n

When you follow your curiosity, you realize things about yourself that you might not if you were only pursuing what you were passionate about. You end up with new perspectives, fresh ideas, and even more curiosity. You might change your path completely, or continue chasing what you love with renewed energy and passion.<\/p>\n

When I followed my curiosity, I ended up in love even more with journalism, the field that allowed me to explore what made me curious \u2014 like movies \u2014\u00a0and write about that curiosity in dozens of reviews. My curiosity turned into a passion for film, and it helped me snag a question with one of my favorite screenwriters and actresses, Greta Gerwig, at a time that I was feeling a bit stretched thin by my own passions.<\/div>\n

Her answer to my question?<\/p>\n

You guessed it: \u201cFollow your curiosity.\u201d<\/p>\n

After all, she said, \u201cthe worst thing that could happen is that you spend your whole life following your curiosity.\u201d That\u2019s one outcome I find hard to disagree with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t follow your passions. I know, I know, that sounds like bad advice \u2014 terrible, even. After all, isn\u2019t college about pursuing what you\u2019re passionate about and taking advantage of all the opportunities you have to do so? To an extent, yes. You shouldn\u2019t throw your passions out the window altogether to do things you … Continue reading Kaya: Follow Your Curiosity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44485],"tags":[44489,44556,44555,44332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}