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The first step in becoming a passioneer is to realize that passion is a choice. You can decide right here, right now, to let
passion into your life--just as might a president, an Olympian, or a Nobel Prize winner. Passion is not a privilege of the fortunate few: it is a right and power that we all possess. You might envy those who are fired up about their lives.
You may view their success as the product of luck or circumstance, but rarely does either factor play a |
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part. Those who reap the rewards of following their passion do so because they make conscious choice to integrate it into their
lives. Things do not magically happen for them any more than they do for you or me. As passioneers well know, once you infuse your life with passion you create new opportunities and the possibility for changes that others might view as lucky.
We control our options and therefore also our outcomes. I am trapped in my job only as |
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long as I choose to stay in it. I am prevented from finding happiness only if I do not seek it. Only when I deem something
impossible does it actually become so. Deciding to follow your heart entail risk. Only you can decide how you will let your passion guide you. Simply acknowledging passion and its validity is a daunting step for many.
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The answer to the passion conundrum in that article is I think the main reason is that from childhood most of us are taught to
fear passion, to view it as dangerous. We are led to believe that there is something dark about it, that it has a sinister element that compels people to commit crimes in its |
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name. That it is irrational and unpredictable. That it brings heartache and regret. We begin to believe that the pursuit of
passion is also the pursuit of pain and uncertainty. Why put everything on the line when the payoff might be resounding failure or humiliation? Why bring such risk on |
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ourselves when we can take a much safer and foreseeable path?
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