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The Career Pathways Effect<\/strong>, chapter 12, Career Guidance and Counseling, page 271:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWorking together, the members of the counseling community can follow these steps in helping students prepare for their careers:
* Help students find their passions \u2014 The system should help students figure out what is important to them. Students will need to figure out their interests, values, skills, and strengths.
* Crosswalk passions to Career Clusters(TM) \u2014 Match interest and strengths (passions) to the broad career clusters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Huh? Did I miss something? When did \u201cstrengths\u201d get translated to \u201cpassions\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merriam Webster defines strength:<\/em>
1: <\/strong>the quality or state of being strong : capacity for exertion or endurance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2: <\/strong>power to resist force : solidity, toughness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3: <\/strong>power of resisting attack : impregnability<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 a : <\/strong>legal, logical, or moral force
\n b : a <\/strong>strong attribute or inherent asset \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 a : <\/strong>degree of potency of effect or of concentration
\n b : <\/strong>intensity of light, color, sound, or odor
\n c : <\/strong>vigor of expression<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6: <\/strong>force as measured in numbers : effective numbers of any body or organization <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7: <\/strong>one regarded as embodying or affording force or firmness : support <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8: <\/strong>maintenance of or a rising tendency in a price level : firmness of prices \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9: <\/strong>basis \u2014used in the phrase <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Passion, meanwhile is defined:
\n<\/strong>
\n1 a :<\/strong> the sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death
\n b : <\/strong>an oratorio based on a gospel narrative of the Passion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 obsolete :<\/strong> suffering<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3: <\/strong>the state or capacity of being acted on by external agents or forces<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 a <\/strong>(1) : emotion (2) plural : the emotions as distinguished from reason
\n b : <\/strong>intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction
\n c : <\/strong>an outbreak of anger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 a : <\/strong>ardent affection : love
\n b : <\/strong>a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept
\n c : <\/strong>sexual desire
\n d : <\/strong>an object of desire or deep interest <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPathways\u201d goes on to say, on page 273:<\/strong>
\n\u201cSome observers feel that delivery of career guidance and counseling in \nK-12 may now be less effective than at any time in the past half \ncentury.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine that. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, on page 275 \u201cPathways\u201d states<\/strong> \u201cFirst, career guidance and counseling is still not taken seriously enough in K-12 education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, imagine that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I was honored to give a keynote for a graduation ceremony.<\/strong> I admonished students against following their passions.<\/em>\n Instead, I recommended that they start serving their communities, OVER\n DELIVER no matter in which roles they found themselves, and that \npassion would follow them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passion is external<\/strong> (\u201cthe state or capacity of being\n acted on by external agents or forces\u201d). Passion is not a strength, as\n strengths are internal. Anyone who has been walked through a basic SWOT\n analysis knows that. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We are living in times that do not afford young people the luxuries of following passions. What is wrong with PRAGMATISM? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

M-W defines PRAGMATISM:<\/strong>
\n1 :<\/strong> a practical approach to problems and affairs \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If career guidance as a profession and career counselors \nas professionals wish to become more effective, and hope to be taken \nseriously, a switch in vocabulary and practice is an absolute must. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me be clear, there are times and places for passion; let us be passionate about PRAGMATISM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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