MJ going toe to toe with trolls LOL
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Wow. If you want to talk about logic, you've provided a wall of text that includes multiple survivor biases (survivor spotlighting) the narrative fallacy (podium popping) and string of non-sequiturs.
So starting a business and fighting for your life on a battlefield is a logical equivalency? Ha Ha. You're reaching my friend.
Ya mean, her feedback loop was kicked on and she was told she was good? Probably also done by her parents as well because they spotted a talent?
But passion was no where to be found. It was purpose.
MEANING AND PURPOSE motivated me.
MEANING AND PURPOSE got me to grind.
MEANING AND PURPOSE helped me overcome failure.
The passion ONLY came later when I started to succeed and see the positive results of my effort.
Winning inspires passion.
Success inspires passion.
Improvement inspires passion.
Overcoming a problem inspires passion.
Learning something new inspires passion.
Achieving a goal inspires passion.
Conquering a fear inspires passion.
You don't follow passion, passion follows you.
Sounds simple, even logical, but it is wrong.
It's the person with the strongest MEANING and PURPOSE who will win.
MEANING AND PURPOSE are things that are more intangible -- like freedom. Like walking into a car dealer and paying cash for whatever I want. Like freeing my family from poverty. Like wanting to live debt free. Like waking up at any time. Like going anywhere, anytime, and at any cost. Like never having to work another day in my life. That motivated me -- not passion.
As for your idealistic fairy tale, you're talking about following passion on a microeconomic level -- oh, I love cars! Start a car dealer! I'm passionate about painting! Sell my art!
Being passionate about freedom and independence is different than being passionate about a specific activity or industry.
LOL.
Guess the idealistic wonderland of "follow your passion" wasn't strong enough to keep ya following your passion eh?
Or strong enough to create a market need?
Or strong enough to create a job out of thin air?
But here's the thing -- had you won a Nobel Peace Prize in some type of historical endeavor because you felt a meaning and purpose behind your work, I'm sure that passion would suddenly appear as soon as your work became recognized. Such is the story for every billionaire on the planet who now stands at a podium and cherry picks the fart "follow your passion."
You're not even 20.
But if you think you've found the secret to world domination in a classroom and on a blog (despite your real world experience written above) have at it. Follow your passion while studying in France, especially if someone is subsidizing that fantasy.
The thing about the real world not lived in a classroom, it makes our life lessons awfully expensive.
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Looks like the point-of-view I've been pushing for over a decade is now starting to gain traction on the guru circuit...
Don't Follow Your Passion: 4 Reasons Why Making a Business Out of Something You Love Is a Mistake
No matter how we try to paint it, money answers all things. Money can even make you achieve your so called dream. I may have a passion for something, but when that doesn't put food, I go out of my way to make it happen. For example, I may have a passion for singing and becoming a start but I don't have enough money to make it happen yet. Then common sense should tell me to look for some sort of jobs or other opportunity, make the money and come back chasing whatsoever that was my passion. Besides, thesame passion is what will drive you to do whatsoever it takes to make money so that you can achieve your dreams.First of all I have read the Fastlane Millionaire every year for the past 3 years or so. I love the book. And yes I already order Unscripted I'm still waiting for it in the mail.
I respect MJ Demarco and his work but since the the first time I read his book I can't get over the fact that he says that money is more important than your passion. That doing what you love will not make you rich.
Imagine you're on your deathbed sweaty, nervous, trying your best to stay awake because you know that as soon as you go to sleep that will be the last time you close your eyes. You're dying on a 24k gold bedframe. But you don't care nor notice all that, you keep going back to that one thing you always wanted to be. A guitarist.
That was your dream and what you enjoyed most. But it wasn't paying the bills or putting food on the table. Nobody was buying your music either because they were been torrented. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
But the pressure from your family to provide food and shelter made you take a detour on your dream. That detour led to riches but it also robbed you of your time with your precious guitar. Yet everytime you saw your dusty guitar in the coner of your room you told yourself next week I'll have free time to play. But you never did.
And yes I know money can buy you some good guitar lessons, your own record label, and even a recording studio. But unless you're Fastlane it won't give you time. So you either choose to strive to be rich or to follow your passion. Comfort in life or regret while dying.
Both passion and riches are essential for your life so is it possible to combine them both? Or are we forever force to decide for either or?
100%. If OP had watched Musk's interviews, he even states "I looked at what could make money and started X.com" in repeated interviews. Can't link on this laptop. Musk made himself into a billionaire so he could pursue his dreams. EVEN THEN he nearly went bankrupt following them (SpaceX).Ah yes, another isolated conclusion that looks at the end, but not at the beginning.
And why do we have these wonderful fantasies now?
Let me guess: Because Elon Musk was PASSIONATE about credit cards, payment processing and drawing up city guides?
Ha Ha, but no.
Elon Musk made his fortune in things that had zero passion ascribed to it.
However, now, billionaires can follow passion and inventive craziness when money is not an issue and they have unlimited resources. Who wouldn't!?
Heck, even I follow passion now (writing) because I can afford to -- and because now I can give ZERO f*cks. I have that in common now with billionaires.
But they/we never start that way.
Had they started with passion, they would not be billionaires and you certainly wouldn't be hero-worshiping their soundbites which I'm sure they took all but 2.5 seconds to think of. In other words, Elon Musk can do the electric car/space thing NOW because it's entangled in his meaning and purpose, and yea, he probably has passion about it.
It's easy to pursue passionate endeavors when money, paying bills, and putting dinner on the table is removed from the equation.
But like all billionaires, passion is not what launched him there. Mark Cuban was NOT passionate about reselling software and integrating systems-- but that launched him onto a path where he could pursue a passion, an NBA franchise .
Pursuit of passions, and global transformative visions come later -- and that's when they unknowingly corrupt the minds of young men with this turd pile known as "follow your passion."
MEANING AND PURPOSE (buttressed by passion via the feedback loop) is the only real driver of transformative change.
I can guarantee you, I'm more interested in your success than any billionaire. But nonetheless, I wish you luck on the passion thing -- as of now you're 28 which the last I checked, is no longer a child or a student. It is full adulthood. And yet, here you are still waiting tables and going to school most likely taught by a professor who probably hasn't started a damn thing in their life. As the old saying goes, if you want to keep on getting what you're getting, keep on doing what you're doing.
Good luck, I've tried to help and said my peace.
As I said, the real world is a far better teacher than I can ever claim to be.
I'm out.
First of all I have read the Fastlane Millionaire every year for the past 3 years or so. I love the book. And yes I already order Unscripted I'm still waiting for it in the mail.
I respect MJ Demarco and his work but since the the first time I read his book I can't get over the fact that he says that money is more important than your passion. That doing what you love will not make you rich.
Imagine you're on your deathbed sweaty, nervous, trying your best to stay awake because you know that as soon as you go to sleep that will be the last time you close your eyes. You're dying on a 24k gold bedframe. But you don't care nor notice all that, you keep going back to that one thing you always wanted to be. A guitarist.
That was your dream and what you enjoyed most. But it wasn't paying the bills or putting food on the table. Nobody was buying your music either because they were been torrented. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
But the pressure from your family to provide food and shelter made you take a detour on your dream. That detour led to riches but it also robbed you of your time with your precious guitar. Yet everytime you saw your dusty guitar in the coner of your room you told yourself next week I'll have free time to play. But you never did.
And yes I know money can buy you some good guitar lessons, your own record label, and even a recording studio. But unless you're Fastlane it won't give you time. So you either choose to strive to be rich or to follow your passion. Comfort in life or regret while dying.
Both passion and riches are essential for your life so is it possible to combine them both? Or are we forever force to decide for either or?
You should definitely read his biography if you haven't already.100%. If OP had watched Musk's interviews, he even states "I looked at what could make money and started X.com" in repeated interviews. Can't link on this laptop. Musk made himself into a billionaire so he could pursue his dreams. EVEN THEN he nearly went bankrupt following them (SpaceX).
P.S.: Gurus and pop culture are selling you an idealized world in tune with the feels-good mentality that populates today's world. They want you engaged in meaningless acts that makes you passionately miserable and make them rich and happy. Get real, WTFU and break the SCRIPT.
That was your dream and what you enjoyed most. But it wasn't paying the bills or putting food on the table. Nobody was buying your music either because they were been torrented. Yet you still enjoyed yourself and could survive off ramen noodles as long as your guitar was properly tuned.
I most certainly thinks he lives his life unscripted .
Sounds like it, I wouldn't doubt the guy was loaded but lived in a shack, which on the Central Coast should cost about $2M. So even to live in a shack and sing all day on the beach, you still need money.
TL;DW: a bunch of 50-something guys work dead end jobs and put all their (and their family's) savings in their "passion" because they believe they will match their success from 30 years ago.
TLDW: Did it work?
Good story. Passion should be about progress, not hobbies.
I swear as I sit here I am still coding up another cool idea. I can't imagine "retiring" and not coding. I do however like that I don't HAVE to code. "
You're right, and IMHO your graph nicely sums up what is necessary for entrepreneurial success : one must be highly skilled at and passionate about doing something that other people want you to pay generously to do. If any of these three conditions is not met, you won't get paid.I believe what MJ is not to forget your passions but rather not to have it as a starting point to develop a business, arguing "passion" does not always pays off and is more important to focus your business in providing value to others instead of making it fun for yourself. For instance if you passion is body bulding and say: I got it I will create my own gym and follow my passions if there are no customers or you do not have the skills to provide value is useless.
Of course if you can do both is amazing and is worth pursuing then for that you need 3 conditions to be profitable:
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Last time I checked sleeping isn't an activity...it's the void of it. You don't get shit done when you are sleeping.and I'm going to pursue my passions of sleeping 10 hours a day
MJ,Ah yes, another isolated conclusion that looks at the end, but not at the beginning.
And why do we have these wonderful fantasies now?
Let me guess: Because Elon Musk was PASSIONATE about credit cards, payment processing and drawing up city guides?
Ha Ha, but no.
Elon Musk made his fortune in things that had zero passion ascribed to it.
However, now, billionaires can follow passion and inventive craziness when money is not an issue and they have unlimited resources. Who wouldn't!?
Heck, even I follow passion now (writing) because I can afford to -- and because now I can give ZERO f*cks. I have that in common now with billionaires.
But they/we never start that way.
Had they started with passion, they would not be billionaires and you certainly wouldn't be hero-worshiping their soundbites which I'm sure they took all but 2.5 seconds to think of. In other words, Elon Musk can do the electric car/space thing NOW because it's entangled in his meaning and purpose, and yea, he probably has passion about it.
It's easy to pursue passionate endeavors when money, paying bills, and putting dinner on the table is removed from the equation.
But like all billionaires, passion is not what launched him there. Mark Cuban was NOT passionate about reselling software and integrating systems-- but that launched him onto a path where he could pursue a passion, an NBA franchise .
Pursuit of passions, and global transformative visions come later -- and that's when they unknowingly corrupt the minds of young men with this turd pile known as "follow your passion."
MEANING AND PURPOSE (buttressed by passion via the feedback loop) is the only real driver of transformative change.
I can guarantee you, I'm more interested in your success than any billionaire. But nonetheless, I wish you luck on the passion thing -- as of now you're 28 which the last I checked, is no longer a child or a student. It is full adulthood. And yet, here you are still waiting tables and going to school most likely taught by a professor who probably hasn't started a damn thing in their life. As the old saying goes, if you want to keep on getting what you're getting, keep on doing what you're doing.
Good luck, I've tried to help and said my peace.
As I said, the real world is a far better teacher than I can ever claim to be.
I'm out.
passion has just become another buzzword in todays world. it has no real meaning anymore, it does not mean what many people think it means. it has become a watered down version of its original meaning.
I’ll go after passionate shit when I can do it for the right reasons, unscripted .
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