Great Depression Research Paper

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Most people in the world nowadays have an alarming rate of depression, there are a lot of causes for this mental illness. However, one of the causes for depression is lacking of purpose in life. A lot of adults just go to work at nine-to-five jobs that they hate, then go home or sometimes partying on the weekends, and then go to sleep to get ready for work tomorrow. The cycle keeps repeating, they just live in a repetitive and boring life with no purpose; this is where depression sneaks in, they feel useless and hopeless because they think they have no purpose to live in this world. People have no purpose mainly because they do not have any specific skill or hobby to master. We need to help and guide these people to find anything they like and then master them. It would be much better for their life if they have at least a skill to teach others or do productive things that they love and are passionate about. In order to master something, …show more content…
When we love doing something, we give all of us into it. Sure the passion will help us to achieve the mastery, but in reality, our interests, as said in perspective two, change over time. We can love doing something passionately, but most of us cannot hold the passion of doing it for a long period of time in order to achieve the mastery of it. Besides the first perspective, this is a great way to achieve mastery by doing something that we love, if we can really hold our interest on it for a long period of time. Having a passion for something in order to achieve it is good, but keeping oneself motivated throughout the hardness and the time is more important. This is when dedication, concentration, and persistence come into play. Nonetheless, it is always a good way to combine those qualities with the passion for a skill or a hobby in order to reach the mastery of

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