We have all heard the fairy tale, college student misses family creates way to share pictures and updates with them and becomes a billionaire overnight (I’m of course referring to Matt Zuckerberg and Facebook). Now his is living the dream! Getting up everyday and getting inspired by the very thing he invented. We are further taught from a young age to become educated and our passions will provide the next meal ticket. After several years of studying many of us have come to the conclusion that this might not be the truth. Or that it is a version of the truth that we want so desperately to believe. In the end we realize that we will have to settle for that not so nice job and maybe if we are lucky we will start to like it and be good at it.
But it does not fill that void. That void deep inside you where your actual passion is hiding like a petrified kitten. You go there often enough only to return to reality and wonder why am I not doing what I was meant to do?
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| Why don't we unleash our creativity? Why do we give up on it? What's stopping us? |
What I’m getting at is that we all want to follow our passions and wake up every day in pursuit of it. So, I ask the question: What is stopping you? Why do we make up excuses and in the end settle for less? What is holding us back? Why do we stop dreaming?
In today’s #Tedtalk Prof Larry Smith from the University of Waterloo bluntly (but very funny) tries to explain the excuses people make to not follow their passions. And why it results in us not having that perfect career.
I hope the video lights a fire under you, as it did me!!
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| Follow your dreams and don’t settle for less. |
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