Let me condense the meaning of this word for you. (according to the net) An intense emotion or a positive natural liking or sympathy towards something or someone. That tingly feeling you have when you do something you love doing or maybe have not yet experienced before but you love it! Something humans would associate with their inner "animal" because they are doing something for once they think they were born to do. A handful of them who live and earn doing something they love. Like sleeping on mattresses. Hacking. Even to the extremes of smelling under arms as an expertise. Being passionate is one of the many ways to fuel the soul. It gives some individuals a purpose for living.
However saying so, the argument we have as of today is that, "Is passion really needed to be successful?"(definition of successful may differ from one individual or another.) My answer is maybe.
There is a detailed blog I found on the net sharing to us about everything and anything you need to know about being "passionate" and types of "passion" that is observed out there.
If you are interested to get a full picture of passion, here is the blog site:
http://serenityhacker.com/2009/12/is-passion-necessary-for-a-meaningful-life/
Since that is covered by someone else, I shall leave to your opinions to my conclusion and theory I find about "Passion". Recently, in my quest to find the perfect model answer for the argument we are having today, I stumbled upon a diagram illustrating a simple understanding of Passion vs Talent vs Money.
"So, does this mean that success is not in my favor for the rest of my life if I do not have a talent or any skills and no opportunities given to me?"
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| Simple diagram explaining passion's influence in life. |
In the same diagram we can picture some of our friends or family members who fall into some of the intersections as shown above. Then again, to me this image that you see above is rather, simple. We both know that life isn't as simple as it looks. Like how movies have great endings because everything we see is compressed into a few hours of screen time.
My Theory on Passion is that, passion can never go on if there is no actions taken.
Current understanding of #WIN: Passion + Talent + Money = #WIN (too easy)
Here is my recipe for #SUCCESS: Natural talent / Acquired skill + Actions + Opportunity = #SUCCESS
"What if to me, I am successful right now, because I have all these three ingredient that you have mentioned, but I am also passionate about it? Where am I at in the level of success?" I personally find passion is an action amplifier to whatever good or bad you are doing. Similar to money. An amplifier that boost any of your actions like for example, passion for music. One does not stop learning the different instruments they are able to get their hands on because the passion pushes them to do it. There are musicians who has the natural talent or honed skill (because his/her parents wanted them to) of playing one instrument and still, becomes successful up till today! Being successful is nothing if you have not yet achieved popularity and profit. (really?)
No. We should all start things from small. Maybe start by stopping yourself from sulking at home and go out, learn something. Be good in something. Again like in my previous post, get out there and join society. Solve a problem that you observe. Be good at it and voilà, you are on your way to be successful!
On the other side of things, again passion is one of the strongest emotions observed in humans. It is usually related to love. Therefore saying so, if you do have a single clue on how to cook, but passion for something like food and the love for good food, all you need now is, ACTIONS. Start learning how to cook or anything that you think that will soon lead you to cooking good food because this passion in us, it gives you the boost that we will need eventually. Only then, you will cater your future to what you want and how you need it to be. That's my conclusion to my "Theory on Passion".
Special thanks to Nyimas Hanani for her interest in the topic :>
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Do you think passion can be cultivated?
ReplyDeleteWhat if according to your theory that: natural talent + acquired skills + actions + opportunity = success
However in this case, this someone was not born with natural talent in a field, but rather he saw an opportunity (and not passion as the amplifier) to acquire certain skills which is an action in itself thus creating an interest and then resulting into passion to form success.
Do you think that passion can be a substitute for talent too? Or must they coexist to equate to success?
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Hi Anonymous,
DeleteLet me share a little bit of my life experience and thoughts about my passion. I had a thing for good food and how it was prepared. I was rather intrigued with the way how ingredients work in so many different ways to make different kinds of food combination when I was a kid. I would spend hours watching cooking shows and memorize them. So I concluded I had a passion for food. However I did not get myself into a tertiary course that could teach me the ways of preparing good food or even allow me to be a chef when I graduate later on. I did somehow manage to get myself into a stream that I found myself surprisingly good at, design. But before I link this to everything else, let me just restate the two theories that I am going to explain later on for your scenario.
Passion + Talent + Money = #WIN (refer to the diagram in post)
Natural talent / Acquired skill + Actions + Opportunity = #SUCCESS
These two theories may or may not work hand in hand depending on the situation. For mine, it does. I have a (Passion) for food, no (Talent) and I am not earning (Money) selling food. So basically I am not a #WIN. Yet. For the other theory, I had no (Acquired talent [cooking]) but I had (Actions [I did my research on any other relevant about cooking and the other minor skills a chef should have]) and I also had the (Opportunity [to join cooking classes and had jobs that are related to the food industry]). From this I know where I am at as of now towards the "success" that my conscious has set for myself. As of today, "success" means I am going to sell food for a living.
Lets see how your scenario is like. He has the (Opportunity [to obtain the (Acquired skill)]) and the (Actions) he is taking now which is to get this (Acquired skill). This does not lead to his "success" yet. Unless the "success" he is thinking of is to just champion the skill that he wants. For his case, he finds that the skill that he wants to acquire becomes a passion along the way for him right? Lucky for him, the road to "success" would be much easier because passion, I believe it fuels your soul and it greatly reflects in the things you do. However, once this "skill" is acquired, he has to look for new opportunities with his new (Acquired skill), (Actions [working hard to make sure he is a niche]) and he will be on his way. With or without the presence of passion.
"Do you think that passion can be a substitute for talent too?" For this I would say no but a yes to ,"must they coexist to equate to success?". Steve Jobs was passionate about an idea he had. "Computers for everyone." He never knew that his idea would be a hit if he did not have his (Talent [which was to communicate efficiently with his partners and colleagues]). He knew that he had to read up and practice the things that he was not sure off and he made sure that he championed them (Acquired skill) to have accomplish whatever he had achieved as of today. It was because of his passion for the new age of technology, he speared through and amplified his idea with the limited resources he had at his garage when he started his Apple Company.
To cover the organs of how this theory works, cultivate our passion. Even if we are doing something right now that we are not really good at or love doing, just (Acquire skill) so that maybe in the future when we harness this power aka knowledge that we did in the past before, it might help you out with the new definition of "success" later in the future. So carefully make decisions that might have a effect on your life goals. Tailor your future to make sure it fits perfectly. Work your way around things to your "success" if the typical route to it is obstructed or whatsoever.
Here's an article that might help answer some things that I might have not covered:
http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/08/29/following-passion-is-different-than-cultivating-passion/