Is Our #Passion the Solution?

I just finished watching the first of a series of videos on a TED playlist entitled "Talks to watch when you don't know what to do with your life".  I have embedded the video below if you are interested in watching.

Larry Smith makes a pretty straightforward and simple point.  One that is painfully obvious but one that seems so impossible to achieve, live by or even simply attempt to pursue given the constraints and constructs which we all inject into our lives as individuals and as a group.  We fear being embarrassed by pursuing it, we fear losing everything we have, we think of "buts" and "if onlys".  We therefore so rarely pursue it.  It....is our PASSION.

In Avoiding the Blues I talk about the project being the monster.  The context is that when you are assigned to a project at work it can easily take over your every minute of every day for its duration unless you learn to manage your time and your effort.  It is so easy to lose ourselves in the job and forget about the bigger picture.  Similarly Larry talks about the "bloodsucking, soul destroying types of jobs".  We lose sense of who we are as we become engrossed by a project, employer or job that is convenient and "good enough".  If we don't nourish our brains on a regular basis.

The best many of us seem able to accomplish is to schedule time for our passions.  Is that good enough?  Or maybe is it that our passions are misguided?  Maybe we misconstrue our passions?  That'll be for another entry.....


https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career

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