11 truths about "How to find your passion"
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Truth 1:
You don't find your passion. You grow your passion.
Most of us feel dumb, because we can't seem to "find" our passion.
The key is to pursue multiple interests, the journey of which will help us discover the one thing that completes us.
You don't find your passion. You grow your passion.
Most of us feel dumb, because we can't seem to "find" our passion.
The key is to pursue multiple interests, the journey of which will help us discover the one thing that completes us.
Truth 2:
Very few find their passion early in life. Most find it much later, if at all.
The world convinces us that we should "pick" a passion as early as possible and then settle.
I think all of 20s should go towards discovering your passion.
Don't settle. Explore.
Very few find their passion early in life. Most find it much later, if at all.
The world convinces us that we should "pick" a passion as early as possible and then settle.
I think all of 20s should go towards discovering your passion.
Don't settle. Explore.
Truth 3:
Passion isn't about money. It is about how you feel.
We are led to believe that if you follow your passion, you will make a lot of money, which will gives you a lot of happiness.
The most passionate people I know are simply content.
At peace with who they are.
Passion isn't about money. It is about how you feel.
We are led to believe that if you follow your passion, you will make a lot of money, which will gives you a lot of happiness.
The most passionate people I know are simply content.
At peace with who they are.
Truth 4:
"Quit your job to follow your passion" is poor advice
Financial stability is a thing.
When we sacrifice that, to follow our passion, we put the pressure of making money on our passion, from day 1.
Our passion then becomes our necessity!
And ultimately dies.
"Quit your job to follow your passion" is poor advice
Financial stability is a thing.
When we sacrifice that, to follow our passion, we put the pressure of making money on our passion, from day 1.
Our passion then becomes our necessity!
And ultimately dies.
Truth 5:
Passions don't come in templates.
Stop looking for standard answers to what your passion could be.
Your context, your experiences, your habits, your idiosyncrasies - all lend itself to a passion that is uniquely you.
Don't make someone else's passion yours.
Passions don't come in templates.
Stop looking for standard answers to what your passion could be.
Your context, your experiences, your habits, your idiosyncrasies - all lend itself to a passion that is uniquely you.
Don't make someone else's passion yours.
Truth 6:
You will never be passionate about something that is not authentically you.
The starting point of your passion, is who do you have to become to live that passion out?
If the answer is "someone you are not", then that is not a passion.
It is simply a desire
You will never be passionate about something that is not authentically you.
The starting point of your passion, is who do you have to become to live that passion out?
If the answer is "someone you are not", then that is not a passion.
It is simply a desire
Truth 7:
Time is the biggest reason people don't discover their passion
Your passion will take several years to turn into your career.
But the problem is, we want everything today.
We have forgotten the art of pursuing something with no goal. Instead because we want to.
Time is the biggest reason people don't discover their passion
Your passion will take several years to turn into your career.
But the problem is, we want everything today.
We have forgotten the art of pursuing something with no goal. Instead because we want to.
Truth 8:
Our failures direct us towards our passions a lot more than success
Whenever we fail, we seek solace and inspiration.
It is during such moments that our potential passions emerge.
What is it that we gravitate towards.
Where we can be we.
And not have to pretend.
Our failures direct us towards our passions a lot more than success
Whenever we fail, we seek solace and inspiration.
It is during such moments that our potential passions emerge.
What is it that we gravitate towards.
Where we can be we.
And not have to pretend.
Truth 9:
Your passions will change
We change as people, and so will our passions.
It is then, the growth mindset that allows us to keep evolving our passions.
Holding on to a passion that no longer serves as one, is you holding on to a potential mistake.
Your passions will change
We change as people, and so will our passions.
It is then, the growth mindset that allows us to keep evolving our passions.
Holding on to a passion that no longer serves as one, is you holding on to a potential mistake.
Truth 10:
Your passion will make you money, once you ask "how does my passion help others?"
Your passion helps you.
It serves you.
For it to make money though, it has to serve others.
Whatever your passion, "how does it help others" will always have an answer.
Find that answer.
Your passion will make you money, once you ask "how does my passion help others?"
Your passion helps you.
It serves you.
For it to make money though, it has to serve others.
Whatever your passion, "how does it help others" will always have an answer.
Find that answer.
Truth 11:
Your passion starts with what makes you happy and what you are good at.
It is possible that what you are good at, doesn't make you happy.
Or what makes you happy isn't something you are good at.
Their intersection is the start of your passion journey.
Your passion starts with what makes you happy and what you are good at.
It is possible that what you are good at, doesn't make you happy.
Or what makes you happy isn't something you are good at.
Their intersection is the start of your passion journey.
All through my life, I have found myself exploring different paths at different points of times.
At first -
becoming a scientist
then a consultant
then an entrepreneur
today a teacher
All through these different phases, I never lied to myself.
At first -
becoming a scientist
then a consultant
then an entrepreneur
today a teacher
All through these different phases, I never lied to myself.
I questioned if it made me happy and if I was good at it.
I questioned if it was what the world needed.
And then found how I could make a living from it.
We know of this as "ikigai"
I knew of it as the way I lived my life and will continue to.
I questioned if it was what the world needed.
And then found how I could make a living from it.
We know of this as "ikigai"
I knew of it as the way I lived my life and will continue to.
The most precious gift you can give yourself in our life, is to live it on your own terms, doing things that are truly you.
I made a video on ikigai long time back, that might be of help
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oprah Winfrey
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