"true interests" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the interests or motivations of a person or group. For example: "He managed to succeed, even when his true interests seemed to be elsewhere."
The gist? Podcasting is the perfect medium for performers with big ambition, a small budget and -- importantly -- an interesting idea (as Gordon and Nanjiani prove, it pays to pursue your true interests instead of trying to fit someone else's format).
In recent weeks, reflecting on that devotion, two friends switched to jobs that better suited their own true interests.
In the performance of the role, as in the writing of it, the true interests of the playwright emerge.
The risk with this approach is that it is not always clear that equity investors have the true interests of entrepreneurs at heart, either.
It seems clear that Snowden acted on the basis of a belief that he was serving the true interests and highest values of his country.
Even exploited workers may fail to understand their true interests and accept the dominant ideology a condition that later Marxists called "false consciousness".
The person who is coerced by society for a breach of the law is, in Rousseau's view, being brought back to an awareness of his own true interests.
Nor should he try "to win the hearts of the people" because, selfish as men are, they do not know their own true interests.
"There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests," Amy Chua writes.
Kerry insists that Assad's true interests require him to shift to the West, which in turn require him to make peace with Israel.
This was necessary, Lenin claimed, because the masses, suffering from false consciousness and unable to discern their true interests, could not be trusted to govern themselves.
