Fixation
What if — opposite to one’s believes or studies — a person actually performs better doing a completely different job? It seems several people around me are ‘caught’ in this behaviour. Even if I cannot look inside theirs hearts and minds, they do seem to be aware of it themselves as well. But due to risk-aversion or other motivations they stay foot. Which than makes me think about the question: what is more important self-actualization or high performance? Are they perhaps interwoven?
But what if the whole ‘I-love-thing’ exactly is the fallacy. We might just perform ‘better’ at something we do with less passion. Passion tends to not get along with compromising so well. And to me lots of companies are often compromising…
Interesting question. I think that self-actualization and high performance are related to each other: the more I love what I am doing the better I can perform. Sometimes though, it might just be the “we-want-what-we-don’t-have”-effect, which makes us think that we would be better doing something different than what we learned.