Career guidance from top VCs or Pulitzer-winning journalists can be misleading due to survivorship bias. They often frame their unique, non-replicable journeys with a "follow your passion" narrative. This advice ignores the countless others who followed their passion and failed, making it an unreliable strategy for most graduates.
The advice to "follow your passion" gets the process backward. A more reliable path to a fulfilling career is to first focus on becoming highly skilled at something that helps others. Passion is not the starting point but rather the outcome that emerges from competence, mastery, and making a tangible impact.
Amid public outrage over a coalition leader's hypocrisy on surrogacy, Chancellor Merz seized the opportunity. He not only forced the leader's resignation but also used the political distraction to fire another unpopular minister, demonstrating how a targeted scandal can enable wider, unrelated strategic changes in government.
President Erdogan's alleged court-backed maneuver to replace a formidable opposition leader with a more manageable one backfired. The ousted leader, Ozel, formed a new party that quickly attracted defectors and voters, creating a more dynamic and potent political threat than the one Erdogan sought to neutralize.