What should you be doing in life?

Apex - locator. How many people could actually tell me what it is? Nobody? I'm not surprised. It is a dental instument used to find the tip of the root during a root canal procedure. It informs the doctor when he is within a millimeter of the apex of the tooth. However, without the definition, very few people would know what it is. That is because, without a defintion, nobody knows or cares what it is, what it does, or why we need it. Definitions are used and needed in writing as well. Without a defintion of what something is or why its being done, and how its different from other things in life, the reader doesn't understand why its important!

In an article I recently read from the New York Times, it was discussed how young adults choose a career field. It is argued that we are taught from a young age to "find our passion". Well, that should be easy, right? Not quite. Some people never discover their passion, and others have more than one. So which career do they choose? The author has used the compare/contrast tool to decide between different careers, and different locations to live in. He argues that, while he has a passion for writing and could be a writer, he could also work for MicroSoft. The third option was to go to M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for their doctoral program in computer science. While the author could see the benefits of all three choices, like the wage and living in beautiful locations, he could also make the decision on where he wanted to go, by deciding what he wanted to do for a living. Saying people can always learn to love what they do, if they have passion for it, he chose to go to M. I. T. While he openly admits it was not easy, he looked at the pro's and con's of his options and decided that he would make the most impact here, instead of as a writer in a remote location, or a MicroSoft employee in Seattle. It does not mean that the other choices were wrong, just that in life you have to make decisions. Decisions are made by comparing different things and finding the pro's and con's that mater to us. Article is called "Follow a Career Passion? Let it Follow You" by Cal Newport