What if there is something better, and passion is our worst option? I have written 6 best-selling books, have a well-followed magazine and articles on Medium, an award-winning podcast, and I run two wildly subscribed developmental communities: one for Executive Teams and one for Change Agents. People stay member for decades and average membership is ten years if they stay through year one to sort whether they are up to the work. 99% do! I am on guest podcasts with large followings about 5 times a month usually being interviewed about my newest books. The most frequent questions I am asked have the word, “passion” in them. “What is your greatest passion?” “What sustains your passion?” “How do you advise others to find their passion?” You get the idea.
thanks Thought provoking as always. . I find myself quite attached to the notion of passion as a word full of the promise and aligned to the forces of ‘life’ and energy for t …. But actually reading this deconstruction of its meaning through its etymology is very thought provoking… holding our internal locus of control is ‘work’ in itself and I can see that passion could sweep one to a state of mindless loss of control.
thanks Thought provoking as always. . I find myself quite attached to the notion of passion as a word full of the promise and aligned to the forces of ‘life’ and energy for t …. But actually reading this deconstruction of its meaning through its etymology is very thought provoking… holding our internal locus of control is ‘work’ in itself and I can see that passion could sweep one to a state of mindless loss of control.