Don't follow your passion, follow your effort #010
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Don't follow your passion, follow your effort
You've probably heard it hundreds of times. Especially from people who've already found their passions. And I plead guilty, too. But isn't that the most obvious and useless advice at the same time?
If you think about it for two seconds. If someone hasn't found "his passion", there's no point in telling him "you have to find your passion". It's like saying to someone who wants to lose weight, "you should be careful what you eat". What's the point?
However, we can take the approach of Mark Cubain, who proposes to follow, not your passion, but your efforts. And double down your investment there.
The things I ended up being really good at were the things I found myself putting effort into. A lot of people talk about passion, but that’s really not what you need to focus on. You really need to evaluate and say, ‘Okay, where am I putting in my time?’ Because when you look at where you put in your time, where you put in your effort, that tends to be the things that you are good at. And if you put in enough time, you tend to get really good at it.
The other good thing is that if you put in the necessary time, and you become really good, then you won't give up so easily. Nobody gives up anything they're good at because it's fun to be good. It's fun to be one of the best.
Don't follow your passion, follow your effort.
ONE QUOTE TO SHARE
“If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius.” - Michelangelo
ONE ARTICLE TO READ
The date that marks the day when humanity has consumed all the resources that ecosystems can produce in a year should fall on 22 August.
"This shows that large and rapid changes are possible. But this reduction in our ecological footprint is imposed and unintended, and because it is not accompanied by systemic change in our production and consumption patterns, it will not last," says Mathis Wackernagel, President of the Global Footprint Network.
This decline, which constitutes a "historic reversal" of the long-term trend of increasing global ecological footprint, is due to the containment measures that were put in place around the world in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, these calculations are highly uncertain.
ONE QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF
If you were given the chance to do something that you love and not worry about the paycheck, what would it be?
ONE PERSON TO FOLLOW
I heard about him at a dinner party. I got hooked on it right away! Request a Monster is quite simple. Send him me the following, straight out of your kid's imagination:
1) the monster's name and what it looks like
2) where it lives
3) what it likes doing
...and he'll paint it for you!
These drawings are all more creative than each other. The best part? The money we raise goes to Virgin Money for the NHS Association!
ONE WORKOUT TO DO
The “7min Workout” / time : 7 to 21min
Based on the article published in American College of Sports Medicine. It features 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a wall and a chair. You can do it online here.
Jumping jacks (total body)
Wall sit (lower body)
Push-up (upper body)
Abdominal crunch (core)
Step-up onto chair (total body)
Squat (lower body)
Triceps dip on chair (upper body)
Plank (core)
High knees/running in place (total body)
Lunge (lower body)
Push-up and rotation (upper body)
Side plank (core)
Depending on how much time you have, you can do the 7-minute workout once, or repeat the whole series two or three times. Did you know that 7 minutes is 0.48% of your day?
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