How Following Your Passion is a New Concept

Following on our previous post “Why Following Your Passion is not (Necessarily) the Solution“, I was inpired by the author Cal Newport to use Google Ngram viewer to look at the history of the concept. The result is self-explanatory!

Follow your passion is a very new concept that exploded recently

So, following your passion is an extremely modern concept (currently very trendy it seems) in particular when compared with some other related concepts such as life purpose, love work:

 

In summary we’ve been having life purpose for a century, we’ve been substantially loving work for even more than that, but we’ve only considered following our passion for two decades. Isn’t that strange? I guess we can all draw an interesting conclusion from this observation!