The Only Way to Do Great Work Is to Love What You Do

           Emotion, it is one great element that distinguishes human from humanoids. Even though science technology had shown tremendous development, it is not in a god’s status to gift real heart to machines. Maybe the imperfect, unpredictable emotions can only be a factor of defective, unconstrained living beings. Such emotions give people greater potential and ability, even near to infinite sometimes. Love is one the strongest emotions, as some say it can be more powerful than a mountain. It means passion, eagerness, enthusiasm, and care for the subject; an uninterested person cannot compete with such fervor.

           In general, a person quite usually walks a path of another’s, unable to seek for own values. Many set apparent benefits as the goal of their life, reality as the standard, or follows the path that another person had already planned out for them. For example, they become puppets of their parents, or become ordinary businesspeople and governmental officials. People, at least once in their time, had a dream that they truly wanted to achieve, but had to change for a realistic reason. Then, they shift their own views, deceiving themselves that the changed goal was what they had really wanted for. However, as many career complaints show, majority of people are dissatisfied with their type of work and regret about their life.

           In these cases, people naturally become uninterested since it was not what their true inner voice had wanted for. There is no love for it, just another repetitive part of boring, old life. On the other hand, a few people actually respected their inner voice, and were able to do what they truly felt in their mind. They love what they do, urging them to have more ardor and become attached to their work. Such investment towards work can eventually produce great result that receives attention. Steve Jobs was one who was able to take bold steps to find and do what he loved the most, naturally become successful.

           There are numerous benefits by just loving what a person does, without any surplus efforts. There is no forced action or seeming deception of oneself to get along with it. Effort and passion just happens to be there since there is almost excessive, obsessive care about it. By following the true emotions and inner voice, the great work can be achieved. That is why unless machineries gains a true heart, it can never have same potential as people.

This is the short piece of writing that I did in philosophy class. :)