Rhetorical Analysis Of Do What You Love By Jeff Haden

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As you start to grow up, you never really stop to think what kind of passions you have for a certain work force or what you want for your future. You wonder what kind of career is best for you economically and mentally because you have to find something that brings you money but also, happiness. " You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says" is a speech delivered on June 12, 2005 by Steve Jobs for the graduating class in Standford University. The main point of this speech is finding what you love. Jobs gives personal experiences in order to prove the three points he gives in his speech. On the other hand, author Jeff Haden, who is a ghostwriter, speaker, LinkedIn Influencer, and contributing editor to Inc., wrote, "Do What You Love? Screw …show more content…

He makes the reader feel some type of way throughout his essay because he gives credibility is his arguments. Jeff Haden makes people think about what their true passions are and work for them to achieve them. Haden states, "'Passion is not something you follow,' [Haden] adds. 'Passion is something that will follow you as you put in the hard work to become valuable to the world.'" If you don't have passion, then you will be miserable where ever you go to work because you won't find any interests or motivation to do the job. Unlike Steve jobs where he just tells students to "find what you love", Jeff Haden advices you to look and work for what you want, as it will take time but be worth it at the …show more content…

Jobs uses more pathos throughout his speech than any other rhetorical appeal because he uses his experiences to explain why find what you love is the best advice. In the speech he mentioned about when he dropped out of college, when he created Apple, and after getting fired from his own company he created NeXt and Pixar which is where he met his wife. With all these experiences he tries to convince students that by never giving up on what they love, they will achieve their goals. He states, " You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." He gives good advice to these graduates about finding what they love to make everything else workout just like what Haden did, the only difference is that Haden also said that sometimes what you "love" isn't truly what makes you happy that's why you must explore different options, but Jobs doesn't do that. He thinks that just by giving his life experiences and what he accomplished will happen to other people. But not everyone has the same luck he

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