Screw finding your passion:

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This is an awesome article. I decided to post it in the OT because reactions elsewhere in the forum would amount to anything between drool and total meltdown.

http://markmanson.net/passion
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  • Yeh, this is drooly stuff.

    Saliva hangin' offa my lip like a frickin' bib.
  • spot on. (Not spit on, btw. spot on.)
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    • Bingo !!

      Remember some people have a Passion for sweat and working really hard regardless if they actually like the job in of itself.

      Find Passion outside of the place you make money at.... i.e. Family, kids, church, disc golf, rock collecting,
      sports etc..etc..

      When you try to mix your Passion with Money you end up losing some Passion for that Passion
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    That was an amazing article. I enjoyed his writing so much, I read more of his blog. Very interesting and engaging.
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    • Me, too. I loved that article in particular.......but I also enjoyed his writing style so much. I have it bookmarked to read more whenever.

      I almost posted this in the Mind Forum -LMAO. I thought the reception would be less than friendly. And in the main forum I wasn't sure how many newbies could handle being told "if you don't know, how the f*** do I". LOVED that one.
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    How can this make me $50,000 in 3 weeks?
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    • Honest to God, I read the title as;


      Screw; Finding Your Passion.

      I was severely disappointed.
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    • "As a kid, I would write short stories in my room for fun. As a teenager, I would write music reviews and essays about bands I loved and then show them to nobody. Once the internet came around, I spent hours upon hours on forums writing multi-page posts about inane topics - everything from guitar pickups to the causes of the Iraq War.

      I never considered writing as a potential career. I never even considered it a hobby or passion. To me, the things I wrote about were my passion: music, politics, philosophy. Writing was just something I did because I felt like it.

      And when I had to go looking for a career I could fall in love with, I didn't have to look far. In fact, I didn't have to look at all. It chose me, in a way. It was already there. Already something I was doing every day, since I was a kid, without even thinking about it."
      "Screw finding your passion"

      Says the successful blogger who spent his youth in his room writing essays for fun.
  • LOL "If you don’t have any idea what to do with yourself, what makes you think some jackass with a website would?"

    People often do accidentally discover their "passion." That said, it took me a while to assimilate the word the way it is so frequently used nowadays. Passion is what I felt for Carmen, the hot girl in high school when my hormones were running high, not for stamp collecting or something (not that there's anything wrong with that).
  • If'n you ever need to get a point across, the F words makes it incredibly easy. ;D

    Great reads, thanks ya'll.
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  • Tellya, somea these articles are so good the guy could cut out everything but the Fs an' still make more sense than the sqky cleaner gurus out there.
  • so what happens if your passion is screwing
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  • On my heart,
    don't want my life wasted
    chasin' noneya alien passiondreams
    'cos my knuckles ghost out white
    on stoopid fightin' ya.

    Wanna lift life up right now, smack it onya.

    Guy here on my train is so cool an' so crazybeautiful an' he is swankin' on his honey all +

    Gotta love the roll on his eyes, wanna youchya.

    Flickin' on yummy from outta empty air.

    Yeh yeh wanna lick on there.

    Cool train, blow me out, swell me up on full.

    Or what do I do, jus' sit here?

    Hangin' by fingertips from some stoopid mountain not my own?

    I am too old to smacko tje guy, prolly schwangoed out, an' fool editin' not gonna sway me now, pn my heart, blessed to touch this place, wanna suck hard on the ******.

    Dunno if that's passion but I'd fight ya to be me right now.

    Got borno, got the horno, gonna spawno.

    Kinda that.
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  • So glad bein' mortified don't actually killya.

    Gotta live on tomorrow, gotta lick on there.

    Not played the vid, but I figure it's ironically unkind to moi.

    *throws back head, suggestin' mock indifference*

    But isn't this all the thing?

    Gotta rouse us up with sumthin' or we r jus' LOLcats ROFLin' in breezoland.

    I was gonna say sumthin' else but onea my eyes jus' fell out.

    Oh yeh, watch out, onea your eyes gonna fall out — only it did, an' now I lost the other one tryin' to put things right.

    Like Emerson said: "Sorry, you got the wrong guy — I'm Satan."

    Alternatively, either this guy is dead or my watch has started.
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    • It wasn't a dig, Princess.

      You just remind me of the Jive Talkers.

      If I really, really pay attention, I get it. I like when I get it.

      Thanks.
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  • in my dreams i am an unmoody ****a so i gotta sleep now

    i equally love that today is all burned up yet gone forever

    it is a disturbingly unequal equal i hope to balance better tomorrow

    hope godzilla don't hsve the same idea, but he prolly will, the sob
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  • Passion and desire are two different things entirely! DESIRE is a strong wish to do it. TODAY, I watched a good times episode, and JJ said he wished "that he could get rich enough to....". YEP, DESIRE! His character had his wish fulfilled the whole time! He COULD! PASSION is a bit more in that you will do it even if you see no benefit, etc... JJs character HAD a passion, for painting. Sometimes, he used it to make money. When the idiot manager gave a STUDENT'S painting to an art show, JJ did the right thing, and the student did also, and he made still more money. Had HE had the painting there, and really tried, he could have done FAR better.

    One person sold old records. HE wanted to be rich, but he used a kind of passion. TODAY, that old company that sold records from his kitchen table ALSO flies airplanes, and deals with cell phones. OH, they still sell records too, and everything around THAT! His companies are easy to spot because he poked fun at his being a NEWBIE, and named them all VIRGIN! He's a billionare, btw. Apparent 5.1 billion USD.

    Steve
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    They banning fools like a mofo up in here.








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    • Too bad. He's a smart one, and I enjoy his posts. But I see they are also taking out some of the trash.
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    Screw finding your passion:

    This is an awesome article. I decided to post it in the OT because reactions elsewhere in the forum would amount to anything between drool and total meltdown. http://markmanson.net/passion