David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and author, delivered a baccalaureate address at Sewanee structured around what to worry about and what not to worry about. His third 'don't worry' was aimed squarely at the most common piece of commencement advice in America: 'Find your passion.' Brooks called it 'the biggest load of crap old people have ever foisted on the young.' He illustrated this with the story of Dorothy Day, who thought she wanted to be a writer and bohemian in Greenwich Village. She hung out in bars, listened to jazz, and read Dostoyevsky. Then she was wrongly arrested, and the experience indicted her entire lifestyle. Years later, the birth of her child flooded her with love and turned her toward God, which led her to found The Catholic Worker movement. None of this was a passion she 'found' — it was a calling that found her. Brooks's reframing — 'Don't think about what you want from life. Think about what life wants from you' — was a direct challenge to the self-centered model of career planning. If you're observant, he argued, 'some large problem will plop itself in front of you. It will define your mission and your calling.' The passive construction was deliberate: you don't choose your passion; you receive it.