Why doing what you love makes it hard to fit in...

Making sense of our most natural impulse.

Austin, Texas

I’ve always struggled to feel like my passion and my work were “the right thing”.

For the longest time, I thought my "passion" was supposed to be this thing that I selected from a list of options that other people had curated for me.

I took all the career tests at school, went to a million clubs, tried a million sports and hobbies, and took a…