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The primary problem with the passion hypothesis is that all the attention is focused on the self. One of those [faulty] assumptions is that we as people have preexisting passions we need to “discover” and then follow.
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passion
If you find that you start a number of stories or pieces that you don't ever bother finishing, that you lose interest or faith in them along the way, it may be that there is nothing at their center about which you care passionately.
page: 103
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finishing
passion
Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening
page: 103
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passion
We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care. We need passionate change makers willing to be shunned if it is necessary for them to make a point.
page: 8
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passion
change
horizontal axis: passion (passive - to passionate +); vertical axis: attachment (attachment - to discernment +j). Q1: Linchpin, Q2: Bureaucrat, Q3: Whiner, Q4: Fundamentalist Zealot. One axis asks 'Can you see it?' the other asks 'Do you care?'
page: 181
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discernment
passion
attachment
Afraid you're not good at something? Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. You can't know without a lot of effort. If you have the passion for it, put in the effort and see.
page: 107
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passion
effort
When you compromise and you fail, it really hurts. It hurts even more than failing at what you love. I've learned that you can fail at what you don't love, so you might as well do what you love. There's really no choice to be made.
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compromise
passion
Oration is capable of conveying passion and urgency and outrage, but it struggles with the many more subtle emotions. If you were speaking to a single person, you would not orate. You could not build a day-long conference program around oration.
page: 205
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passion
speaking
emotion