Inspired by Ruben Navarrette, I feel strongly about the pressure put on college students to pick a major and determine how they are going to live the rest of their lives.
He spoke about finding your passion, and making a living from that. I was very interested in this section of his speech because I have struggled so much in trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life, and what direction I wanted to go in with my education.
In college, the emphasis is put on specific areas of study. It limits creativity by implying that once the decision is made, you are locked into it, and you can't deviate from what you studied. I felt inspired by what he said about finding something you are interested in, putting the effort into it so that you become good at it, and then letting everything else fall into place. You don't have to pick something because you think it will make you wealthy. If you are doing what you love, the money will fall into place.
A lot of times, the emphasis is put in the wrong place for where we are in our lives, and it is hard to look at the big picture.
Caitlyn Tomasik