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In conversations with hundreds of people who have been sitting on the side, eyeing the passion pool, I've heard countless reasons that are keeping them stuck.
One of the biggest?
That's not what success looks like.
Success, in our classic American definition, can be summed up in one simple word...MO'. As in mo' money, mo' status, mo' things.
Mo' money is easy to quantify. Mo' happiness, on the other hand, is not. Guess which one gets used more often as a ruler to measure success.
I knew I woujld like Curt's blog! Yep passion ladies and gentlemen - please show me some. Please let me show it to myself.
This broadband thing has become kind of a passion but not as much as writing or learning or my wife or family or science fiction or rugby or even this blog. Passion is usually seen as bad. Why 'cos passion is emotion and we need to be disspaionate analysts of data.
To use the venacular (as the VW ad is telling us) Bollocks!
Curt is right I need to show some passion about myself and get off my backside and do more. I hate working to live. I need something more otherwise the wheel has a flat tyre.
Hands up who needs a pssionate, inspiring, clever person working for them? My CV (resume) is always available.
And Curt... this is the Internet - virtual space is tiny. Quantum. And so is thinking, learning and knowing space.
Now meatspace is big, And most people still think meatspace.
Posted by Paul Goodison at October 3, 2003 06:59 PM | TrackBack