Stunned and confused
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A few years back, my wife and I went to see my wife’s grandma in a nursing home. Toward the end of our visit, she locked eyes with me, squarely across the room.
"Do what you love!" she exclaimed.
Wow, I thought. What poignant and unexpected advice.
Then, I remembered that I was wearing a t-shirt from WeWork — a startup I worked with had been based in one.
"Do What You Love” was WeWork’s slogan, and it was written in stylized script across the front of my shirt.
I like that phrase, even though I think it only works as the second half of a more powerful suggestion: “Find a Way to Do What You Love,” if it were up to me, so you get away from the plain-old “follow your passion” advice that gets a lot of people in trouble.
Also, I’m a little annoyed that it’s associated with WeWork, given everything that happened with the company afterward.
We’re going to be hearing a bit more about WeWork over the coming months, which is ironic since urban office space is less in demand than any time in modern …
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