The Passion Economy
Exploring the belief that by taking risks, failing often, and turning a passion into a career, we create more positive outcomes for ourselves and the communities in which we live.
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passion is in the risk.
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one of my favorite things to tell my friends when they begin to doubt things/life/choices…
“if you never try, you’ll never know”
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“”The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t...”
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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
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“I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.”— George Burns
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Day 5: Passion
This, my friends, is called Not-your-typical-German-chocolate-cake.
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I don't care if chasing my dream makes me ridiculously poor...
I refuse to do things in life just to get by. I refuse to do things in life with no...
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“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”— General George Patton
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Honda just launched a new site called “The Power of Dreams,” which contains a series of beautifully crafted short documentaries that capture the essence of what The Passion Economy is all about: inspiring people to take big risks to follow their passions, and celebrating their failures as the learning experiences that they are.
Writes Honda:
Honda is a company founded by a dreamer. And we are a company that believes in the Power of Dreams. In this spirit, we have created a series of short documentary films celebrating those who have the courage to turn failure into success, and to forge dreams into a better future. Empowered by their deeply held beliefs and guiding philosophies, these individuals make the impossible real.
For more videos, visit Honda - The Power of Dreams.
My friend Kiran sent me this cartoon. As you might notice, the goat on the unicycle “Isn’t Afraid to Fail.” I was happy to see that, at least in the mind of a cartoonist, this characteristic is considered a positive trait ;)
Click through for a higher resolution version. As found on Virus Comix.
In one of my favorite speeches, Harry Potter author JK Rowling delivers an amazing address to the Harvard Alumni Association titled “The Fringe Benefits of Failure.” In this speech JK Rowling describes how her career hitting the skids made possible her turnaround as an author and eventual creation of the Harry Potter franchise.
She writes, “I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
In both her story and that of Erik Proulx (below) there’s a common theme about how failure enables people to take the risks that ultimately serve them best. It’s only after they’re forced to fail do they start truly risking failure. In a sense I find that counter-intuitive and I’m curious to explore the subject in more detail.
The text / transcript of the speech is found here.
Words of inspiration from Michael Jordan, courtesy of a Nike TV spot: “I failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
