HASTI PUBLIC SCHOOL & JR.COLLEGE DONDAICHA
BLOG NUMBER 116.
At our Hasti school Most of the prents when approach to our counselling center and ask many different types of questions related to career growth of their ward *but most common questions I have come across are ;
How do I help my child pursue her/his passion? How do I help my child explore her/his interest?
Are you also thinking of these questions? Then, this writeup is for you.
let us first understand about passion . Passion not only drives you to enjoy your work, but helps in overcoming obstacles in the workplace as well. Anytime you hit a bump in the road or begin to doubt your abilities, remember the positive effects of the work you are doing. passion gives you a reason to keep learning and to work toward mastery. It can often give you a reason to travel, and therefore to have the new experiences so key to happiness. It gives you something in common with other people, and so fosters social bonds. It gives you purpose. but
when the passion pushed by our parents or anyone around us to pursue due to different reasons such as to enter a prestigious school, to stand out from the crowd, to succeed, to be more popular, and to compete with other family’s daughter or son accomplishments, and more tit is PSEDUO PASSION and this pseudo passioin hurts children because we pursue something out of obligation or duty, but we’re not interested in it, we are wasting our time, energy and effort on something we are not passionate. During that time, we also fail to realize or find our real calling as a person.jen * So if parents, want children to have passion, and ambition, let them explore different things in their life, don’t get ahead of them, and push their dreams for them to pursue because they never got it*
I know that children should make their parents happy by becoming a responsible, disciplined, sensible, successful, happy, and healthy adult, but it’s not the children’s job to pursue missed opportunities and dreams of their parents, unless their children had the same dreams with their parents.Have patience, if a child is not finding his passion soon enough
I have compiled five little nuggets basis my experiences of counseling several students.
1- You are already ahead of more than 90% of parents if you have decided to support your child in finding his or her interest. More than 80% of India’s BTech graduates are unemployable (HT Survey 2017). If your child pursue his or her passion, there is a good chance that she/he would work harder.
2- Your child doesn’t choose a career after 10th/12th. They only choose subjects. You can do BTech and then become an economist like Raghuram Rajan, you can study Psychology and then become a Data Scientist. So, the child better think of them as subjects to be studied for the joy of learning, rather than career paths. Your child can change multiple careers. If career is stabilized by 30 that’s okay. Most people who didn’t explore enough now find themselves in a mid-life crisis.
3- A true passion is one that you’d persevere for. If it is a pseudo-passion you would work on it for a few days and then give up. There is a steep learning curve in a field after the initial glamor that draws you in. If your child is able to take those tough times and still march ahead, if your child is able to build something small or explain those ideas, I guess that’s a start.
4- There is a difference between liking the benefits of X and liking X itself. For example, one may like IAS because of the respect and red beacon. On the other hand, you may like the idea of administration, public policy and influencing the lives of people. A student who likes the benefits may get the resilience and perseverance. A student who is driven by the journey (not the destination) would succeed in life even if she/he doesn’t get an IAS admit. The learnings and experiences would help the student construct a good career path elsewhere.
5- Your child can be victim of own expectations if the goal is set for the results/benefits.This can lead to enormous mental stress. On the other hand if your child connects with the journey, she/he finds the joy of learning. This joy of purpose are key to a victor mindset – the glow in the eyes reflect the personality of the child.
Things change in life – your subject changes, your career stream changes, the people around you change. However, if you grow your personality with time, if you develop a stronger sense of purpose, your life is bound to get a lot more interesting.
Our students should have a very flexible approach. so that They will be building various competencies within, they are exploring multiple fields. do share your views to make passion different from pseduo passion….
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