Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Tedx Talks. " How To Find Your Passion and Inner Awesomeness." YouTube. YouTube, LLC. 7 September 2013. Web. 4 November 2014.

              The speaker, Eugene Hennie, talks about how creative he was a child and how many people are too. He follows by saying that no one really tells us that we are horrible at a specific thing. Because of this, the thought that we aren't meant to follow that as a career or dream never crosses our minds. As he talks about his life story on how he hated his job and found another job that completed his passion. His passion was to have a job where it did not seem as a job and something that involved a lot of traveling. When he quit his job and moved to another company he was able to finally live that and create sort of like a step-by-step suggestion on how to find your passion.
               The first step was to know yourself. You have to know what make you happy/angry, what you like/hate, and who you are. Without knowing who you really are, it is hard to find out what your true passion(s) are. The second step is to embrace yourself. The example he gives is if you're a nerd, embrace your nerdiest quality, if your an athlete, embrace your athletic quality. Everything becomes easier as you learn to embrace yourself. The third step is to surround yourself with encouraging people. If you are part of a group with negative feelings, they will become attached to you and your thinking. The same with the positive people. The fourth step is to know what you want. You might say you want a job that has great pay, but in reality you want to travel. After this comes to work hard for what you want. To attain your passion you have to lose sleep and put all of your time into developing it. The sixth step is to make the impossible the new possible. The question you have to ask yourself in this step is, how can I not do this? The next step is to fail hard and fail often. The saying goes, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Failure is part of discovering what your passions truly are. If you fail at something and you decide it isn't the right thing for you, you can move on to something else. You can keep trying until you find something that does make you happy. The eighth step is to beat your craft. Then comes learning to embrace confrontation. If you truly want something, you have to be able to face people and not make excuses as to why you can not do it. The final step that was talked about was to do what is right. There will always be things that are right and those that are wrong.

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