do work you love (2/4): "find your passion" (september 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 T.S. Eliot’sThe 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 Bella •  Former management

consultant in Sydney •  “Hit rock bottom” •  Three Words – Curiosity – Play – Passion

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?

EXERCISE: EXCITEMENT

What would you do if you didn’t have to go into work

tomorrow? For the next year?

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4. DESIRE

Alan Watts: What do you desire?

What do you desire?

DESIRE Ben Keene •  Wouldn’t it be cool if... •  Tribewanted: 1000

members on an island in Fiji

EXERCISE: DESIRE

List 10 things you want for yourself.

(Hint: Be; Do; Have)

5. MISSION

What’s bigger than just yourself?

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?

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)

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