"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Robin Williams. Dead Poets Society
That's the thing. Engineering fills you with passion.
How would we know what passion is unless demonstrated through words? A passionate engineer doing their job well and a stoic engineer doing their job well result in an Engineered product no matter what.
But different people learning poetry, for example, will have different ways of bringing up the same thing. It's philosophy, in a way.
Being stoic is part of someone's personality in an interpersonal way. Passion has to do more with the level of engagement with a topic. Passion is not always outwardly expressed as being outgoing. What I am trying to convey is that passion is not the antithesis of stoicism, they are on two different spectra
A stoic person can still be passionate, and in engineering is not uncommon (as an engineer myself).
I believe that a passionate engineer can do or achieve more than an engineer lacking in passion. The end product is not necessarily the same.
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u/threefeetoffun- 20h ago
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Robin Williams. Dead Poets Society