UrbanMonk has an interesting article on how to get to the core of your passion(s) and then pursue them. A lot of it’s just the standard “don’t give up on your dreams” rhetoric (which isn’t exactly a bad thing) designed to give that much needed boost of hope that creative types need more often than most, as we pursue our various quixotic quests and treks up Maslow mountains.
What I found different about this post was how it encourages you to analyze a given passion, to break it up into a core essence, preferred forms of expression, and preferred mediums to communicate it to others. We often make the error of locking into a specific version of a passion (i.e. “I want to be a rock star with a record deal who sells out arenas”) when what we really want is much more fundamental (i.e. “I love to tell stories and explore emotion and thought, especially through music, and I’d like to do it full time. I could get a record deal to help with this, but I could also do it myself. It would be nice to have a big audience, but all I really need is a thousand true fans.”).
Check it out if you think you should be pursuing some of those passions you’ve been denying but don’t know where to start.
