Is passion a fair measure of success in a creative workplace? We unpack why success and passion are expected to go hand in hand and how the unmeasurable, soft skill may not be the best way to identify talent. |
Do We Really Need Passion? |
In the creative field, what sets apart a good employee and a great employee is passion. The problem with that? Passion, like art, is up to interpretation. Did you build five mockups when all the proposal asked for was one? Express extreme enthusiasm to the brand that wants to commission you for graphic design work? How about staying late to organize the paperwork at the record labels office?
Extra work, deep engagement and long hours are indicators that you are passionate about your job in the arts. While passion is encouraged for anything you do, the issue with using it as a measure of success in the workplace is that it’s subjective, which can lead to exploitation. And if you don’t check off the criteria of the person who’s evaluating you, you’re automatically labeled as being passionless and “bad for the ecosystem.”
In a study conducted by Fast Company, an architecture firm is used to analyze what employers in the creative industry are looking for and found that “passion” was a key factor, despite it being a “psychological state that can’t be objectively measured” and is accompanied by physical indicators like enthusiastic eye contact.
While that may be a loose indicator that one is devoted to their work, how someone looks at you surely isn’t enough to knight someone with the title Best Employee Ever. And the findings support this, noting that passion as a measure of success can differ from person to person, and even ebb and flow within the same person, encouraging readers to question whether or not passion should be a main indicator of success as a creative. While there isn’t a better-proposed vetting system in the works yet, all I know is that a good work ethic is nuanced and shouldn’t be whittled down to subjective indicators. So yeah, if you don’t want to devote five hours of overtime, all in the name of “passion”, it doesn’t make you any less of a talented creative, it just makes you human. |
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