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Always Be (INSERT PASSION HERE) Recently a very talented illustrator friend of mine posted on his Facebook page that he had gotten a client based on an offhand sketch he’d made on the back of a napkin...
View Articleshould you do what you love?
Love & Other Disasters In episode 30 of the “You Are Not So Smart” podcast there is an interview with sports writer David Epstein, in which they talk extensively about that infamous “10,000 hour”...
View Articleshould you do what you love?
Do What You Love – No, Wait… Ya gotta love the lemmings. Steve Jobs, in a now-famous keynote, set down a challenge for the up-and-coming workers (aka college grads) that has been quoted over and over:...
View ArticleIn Defense of Passion
The only thing that drives me as nuts as the bland and whimsical “Follow your passion!” articles that fill personal development blogs is the inevitable backlash of “Don’t follow your passion!”...
View ArticleMy Last Word on Following Passion
Last weekend when I recorded the Love Life Practice Podcast I was able to read the comment that my friend Petrona left rebutting my rebuttal. I actually had to re-record the section, because the first...
View ArticleEngage with What You Love
If you have headphones, or can play classical music in your environment, you should click on the link and watch this short (about two minutes) video: Even if you can’t watch it, you can tell from the...
View ArticleThe Logical Fallacy of the Futility of Passion
I am not a tremendously logical man. I wish I was; it's probably part of why statistics thrill me so much. It's taken me a while, but there was always something about the whole If you follow your...
View ArticleDon’t Stop
Yesterday Petrona put a comment on my post about following passion that I had some trouble with. It’s from Amos Bronson Alcott, “We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans,...
View ArticleThe Simple Way to Find Your Passion
I’m happy to see that the word “passion” making a comeback. It fell out of…
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