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Raise Your Game: Chase Your Dreams Or Be Practical?

ByAaron Tang
Aug 28, 2016 • 1 Min Read
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Many employees today are disengaged at work, and people say “follow your passion” as if it were the cure to everything.

But idealistic dreams aside, is it really a good thing to follow your passion?

Aaron from Leaderonomics Campus looks at some real-life examples and talks about practical steps to consider.

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If you would like to speak to our fellow Corporate Services team on how we can help your organisation, email us at training@leaderonomics.com. To know more about our Campus initiatives to prepare graduates for the future, email us at campus@leaderonomics.com. For our other Raise Your Game podcasts, click here.

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Aaron is the founder of mr-stingy.com, where he writes about optimising time, money and relationships. He was previously head of the campus team at Leaderonomics.

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