Why are people more worried about making money instead of doing what they love?

Because if you're broke, you can't eat - which typically leads to starvation.

Because people live 98% of the time trying to avoid mistakes and 2% of the time trying to avoid missed opportunities. [1] When we're in mistake-avoidance mode, we tend to fall back on our default and socially-programmed behaviors that have conventionally proven to work well for survival. One of those behaviors is to seek money head-on, instead of indirectly. Most people who have experienced the privilege of reaching means above their minimum needs will tell you that money becomes completely meaningless after that. Once you have food, shelter, health, no debt, a projected savings runway of more than a year of expenses, and the confidence to find a job whenever you decide to, the impact of money on your life becomes completely hypothetical. Having a million more dollars will simply give you choices; and these are choices that you will very likely not enjoy, unless you had the guts to make independent choices from the beginning, including not chasing money. So ironically, money in excess only becomes enjoyable to people who have learned early on not to seek money directly. What the majority of us take a long time to understand is that the activities we postpone in search of marginally more money are likely the very activities that lead to value-creation and wealth. And money is a side-effect of creating wealth (doing what you enjoy and other people want). Historically, college has been the stepping stone to climb to middle-class from the bottom. And investment, of time or money, has been the stepping stone out of middle-class and into the privileged wealthy class. College falls directly under the 98% social convention rule: it's what everyone does, and it rarely seems like a mistake. Investment falls directly under the 2% rule: it's risky, and it prioritizes opportunities over fear of making mistakes. So between the two choices of "going to college to make money" and "investing your time in education so that you can build wealth", most people will frame their journey as the former, even though the latter is much more likely to lead to unexpected excess wealth. Doing what you love, when it creates value for others, is called "wealth". Civilization invented money to tangibly represent wealth. And now money is the steady and predictable reward that civilization gives someone to do what he doesn't love, so that it maintains the flow of wealth already uncovered by someone else.[2] To read about a day in the life of those who knowingly walk away from money to pursue value-creation, see the following essay (Disclosure: I'm the author). http://www.aminariana.com/essays/money-worries [1] These statistics are according to studies about human neurological pathways. The dopamine-based motivation pathway fears losing out on opportunities. The dominant serotonin-based motivation pathway fears making mistakes. Most of us, except when doing creative things or during physical exercise, default to the serotonin-based motivational pathway. We also become more dominantly dependent on it as we get older -- which is why most old people are conservatives. Risk-seeking people tend to have more of a dominant dopamine pathway. The lead researcher on this subject is Professor Baba Shiv of Stanford University. [2] Those who start a business usually eat last, but when they do, the ceiling is decided by the market, not by a boss.

Because there are three ideas that permeate American society, which are blindly followed as traditions, which lead to the rat race chasing money. First, that the purpose of business is to maximize profits (for shareholders).  It's not.  The true purpose of business is to bring customers something of value. Second, that whoever has the most stuff wins.  Mainstream materialism isn't making people happy.  It is employing Chinese manufacturers, and Walmart, and enriching the owners of the billion square feet of storage units built in the last decade. Third, that like Andrew Carnegie, we're supposed to get as rich as possible, then start doing good by being philanthropists. As an alternative to these three, I propose that we build and work for businesses that have some meaning and purpose, that provide services which make lives better, which allow more of us to do good and feel good while earning a reasonable income. That is what I now do, having left the rat race three years ago, and what I help others do at http://fledge.co, the conscious company accelerator.

At a personal level: Because, without money, they won't have the resources to do what they love. At an interpersonal level: Because society enforces the notion that life is about becoming rich and famous. Eventually, people lose track of the goals they wanted to accomplish with their money, and becoming rich and successful becomes an end to itself.

1. Because you doing what you love is not necessarily what I need, and vice versa. We can't all play chess and violins. Somebody has to make furniture and fuel and concrete. 2. Many people do not have something they particularly love to do. Instead, they like having material goods. I've had intelligent colleagues at work who said flat: "I don't care what is it that I'm doing, only that they pay me well". Unlike you seem to assume, they did not hate what they were doing: they just did not care. It did not bother them. They are responsible, intelligent, educated. In some ways, that attitude served their careers better than my mental structure (which is being passionate about technology).

Because it's harder to profit off of people who value the pursuit of greater knowledge over materialism.

humans desire recognition and the easiest way to get it if u do not have some inherent crazy talent for something that would help us get it is money . there are people who make money doing something they love , but most of us are just normal people striving to earn our bread and butter doing things we might get good of habit rather than of aptitude .so we end up working our asses off for things that dont matter to us , for people we ve never even met # if i love to sing and i cant sing like adele , i would want to spend a cold night in a hut rather than singing on the streets.

It takess guts and courage to do what you want and u love to do because it wnt come easy!! And to become rich n wealthy with less efforts is very simple ordinary and better called as a JOB. But to folllow your heart thing u love to do is called being an Entrepreneur.. Thats what the difference come... Its like to set your own KINGDOM own rules.. And that courage is very rare. U never know you may not earn much money but your mental peace n to stand different from other commons gives immense happinesss n pleasure.. U have nothing to regret in life. And thats why we got these amazing personalities in life like Dhirrubbhai Ambani, Vitthal Kamat Mr Bansal.. And the line still remains: go n achieve excellence, success have to follow u!!!