What do you think about this quote ? Is this an ENFP thing ?
Interestingly, Christopher Nolan (ESTp) said that it was common thought, and "follow your reality" would be better.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-speech-799121
There is basically some stance with this :
- "follow your dreams, it's happiness". "If you make your passion your work, you will be perma happy, and your potential will be revealed". I'm inclined to at least secretely think like that, but not to the extend of forgetting about all domain in life (and reason - not every passion can be sustainable in material term).
- "Following your dream is a thing for kid, real life is not like that". I think this pseudo empowering moral is BS (When I hear that I hear "I can deal with reality I'm so strong" in reality). Not following your passion is kinda "normal" when you need to deal with normal life constraint, but it's not ideal. What give you energy is passion, trying to remove it remove energy for many thing. And Ill admit it, personnal pride is important : if you succeed with something personnal, even if it's small, it give you confidence for all domain in life, far more than "forced work" (employement). Remembering the times when I kicked myself in the back to do music is is remembering to one of the best decision Ive made in my life (wich lead to the best time of my life atm).
- "Following your dream is egoistical" > given as justification of previous point. I think it's a glitch. In fact, when you are into something, into a "road" (doing your passion) and completely integrated into it, you are actually MORE AWARE of your surrounding (in term of people). Perhaps it come from a need of people to work with you ? idk. You attract more and more like minded ppl and chore/formal relationship become enjoyable as they stop to be a goal in themself. You become pretty positive and more open. I extended my friend circle by 300% after beginning to work on passion, and this is not only a result of the domain, but me being more confident then more "open" to other. There is more give & take into relationships.
- "Following your dream is a fail on resilience" > I just invented this one, and this is true and false at the same time. Yes you will be somewhat more "fixed" on one subject, but at the same time dreams are often not feasible in reality. When you accomplish dream, you are in a state of quasi permanent resilience, trying to link dream & realities.
And do you remember your dream as child ? They are impossible to realize isn't it ? Do you see how much you "modified" them ? They become more and more feasible...
- "If everyone followed their dream, society would be BS" > not everyone want to follow their dream
- "If you consider your work as your passion, nothing will be work" > BS. you can have 10000 different work but passion come and go not in a way directed by societal stuff
- "follow your reality" : kinda self actualization ?
Sorry for this "mbti forum-like" post