Do Work You Love Workshop Two: “Find Your Passion”
Nov 01, 2014
Do Work You Love Workshop Two:
“Find Your Passion”
Schedule 7:10-8:00: Session One 8:00-8:10: Break 8:10-9:00: Session Two 9:00-??: Drinks & Chat
Escape The City • +150,000 members globally • Thousands of event attendees • Hundreds of “escape stories” • A vibrant community of career changers,
entrepreneurs, and people who want to ‘do something different’
Who Am I? Matt Trinetti @trinetti
EXERCISE
Who Are You? Why Are You Here?
Why Are We All Here?
EXERCISE
Why Am I Here? To Avoid This:
“A land where everybody is living an inauthentic life, doing as other people do, doing as your told, with no
courage for your own life.” (Joseph Campbell, on C.S. Lewis’s The Waste Land)
And Encourage This:
“Work is love made visible.” (Kahlil Gibran, On Work)
What is Passion?
“a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something
or about doing something.”
When did “Find Your Passion”
become a thing?
“Find Your Passion”
Source: Google Books
The Myth of Passion “There is no special passion waiting
for you to discover. Passion is something that is cultivated.”
--Cal Newport,
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Myth 1: You ‘find’ your passion.
The Reality:
Passions are grown.
Myth 2: Passion strikes like a thunderbolt.
The Reality:
Passion is like love. It starts as an interest, but it takes work to make it work.
Myth 3: Successful people find passion first.
The Reality:
Most successful people became passionate about their work.
Myth 4: Passion = happiness & success.
The Reality:
Passion is more about meaning & fulfillment.
Myth 5: You’re stupid if you don’t know your passion.
The Reality:
It’s all about the journey. Caring to know the answer is
the first step.
So... How Should We Approach
Passion?
What is Passion?
“To Suffer”
What are you willing to suffer for?
Passion < Meaning
It’s Like a Book “I saw that my life was a vast
glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.” ‒Jack Kerouac
Tonight
Our Passion Coaches
John Morgan Charly Cox Julie Leitz
“How to Live a More Passionate Life”
Nine Clues to Living a Passionate Life 1. Values: What is your compass? 2. Strengths: What are your superpowers? 3. Excitement: What is your tennis ball? 4. Desire: What do you dream about? 5. Mission: What is bigger than yourself? 6. Exploration: What options/ideas are out there? 7. Act: What “Little Bets” can you make? 8. Sustain: What keeps you going? 9. Faith: What will happen?
1. VALUES
What’s your compass?
VALUES Tim Summers • Lawyer at top ten firm • Clients & lawyers were
ill-served by traditional model
• Temple Bright
Within the past 3 years: • When have you felt happiest? • When have you felt most proud? • When have you felt most fulfilled?
EXERCISE: VALUES
Share with your neighbour. Neighbour reflect back: what are the common themes?
EXERCISE: VALUES
EXERCISE: VALUES 1. What are your top three values?
2. STRENGTHS
What are your superpowers?
STRENGTHS “Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing. Something we were born with. Something that’s ours and ours alone. Something that can’t be taught to you or learned. Something that’s got to be remembered.” ̶Legend of Baggar Vance
STRENGTHS Jim Cregan • Stage guy for concerts
in summer; manual labour in winter
• A maniac • Jimmy’s Iced Coffee
EXERCISE: STRENGTHS
What would your closest friends say you’re best at?
3. EXCITEMENT
What’s your tennis ball?
EXCITEMENT Paul Archer • Quit Job • Drove to Sydney in
a London Black Cab • “Daredevil Projects”
EXERCISE: EXCITEMENT
What would you do if you didn’t have to go into work
tomorrow? For the next year?
- BREAK -
4. DESIRE
Alan Watts: What do you desire?
What do you desire?
DESIRE James & Thom Eliot (Pizza Pilgrims) • Love for pizza • Pizza Pilgrims • Month-Long Pizza
Pilgrimage through Italy
EXERCISE: DESIRE
List 10 things you want for yourself.
(Hint: Be; Do; Have)
5. MISSION
What’s bigger than just yourself?
MISSION Scott Gilmore • Mission: creating jobs
in frontier economies • “This would be hard.” • Building Markets social
enterprise
EXERCISE: MISSION
List 10 things you want to do for the world.
(Hint: Problems you want to fix in the world)
6. EXPLORE
What options/ideas are out there?
EXPLORE Lisa Lubin • Decade in TV • 3 year sabbatical to
travel & film • LLMedia, Video
consultancy
EXERCISE: EXPLORE
Engineering Serendipity: Suggest something to your neighbor.
7. ACT
What “little bets” can you make?
ACT Rekha Mehr • Buying manager at
Amazon • More to Indian
sweets & desserts than what was in the market
• Pistachio Rose Baking Boutique
EXERCISE: ACT Select 1 item from each top 10 list.
What is one “Little Bet” you can make? What is a single step you can do tomorrow?
8. SUSTAIN
What keeps you going?
SUSTAIN The Chicago Business Book Club • 10 guys in Chicago • Similar ambitions to ‘do something different.’
• Mutual improvement
EXERCISE: SUSTAIN Who are the five people you
hang around most?
Are they helping you or hurting you?
9. FAITH
What will happen?
9. FAITH “Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ̶Rainer Maria Rilke
REVIEW: WHAT WE’VE LEARNED • The Five Myths of Passion • The Nine Clues to Living a More Passionate Life • Personal Insights & an Action Plan, including: – Your top three values – A list of your strengths (what your friends would say) – What you would do if you didn’t have to work for a year – Ten things you want for yourself – Ten things you want for the world – One suggestion of something to try (from a stranger) – One “little bet” you can make, including one small step tomorrow – A list of the five people you hang around most
HOMEWORK THE PASSION MYTH: So Good They Can’t Ignore You (Cal Newport) CLUES TO LIVING A PASSIONATE LIFE: 1. Values: List of 400 Values (Barrie Davenport) 2. Strengths: Clifton Strengthsfinder (Gallup) 3. Excitement: Drew Houston’s Commencement Address (MIT) 4. Desire: Alan Watts: What do you desire? (Vimeo) 5. Mission: It’s Not About You (NYT) 6. Exploration: The Power of Time Off (TED) 7. Act: Little Bets: A New Theory of Creativity & Innovation (Brain Pickings) 8. Sustain: How Can a Book Club Change Your Life? (The Escape School) 9. Faith: Say ‘Yes’ to Your Adventure (TEDx)
- THANK YOU -