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@iceicegrama

Look for the Umbrella

When you look at all the ingredients that matter to you, they might at first seem entirely disconnected. Let’s say you love French, drinking coffee, playing with words, analyzing and categorizing, and being a leader within a community. How could you construct a career from these?

Seek an umbrella; something that all of these ingredients can fit beneath.

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6 Fresh Ways to Find Your Passion at Work

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5 steps to help you figure out your passion

Ever watch The Great British Bake-off? It's an addictive reality TV show about the hunt for Britain's best amateur baker. Few of the contestants cook for a living - baking is simply their passion. And it's passion that carries them through weeks of competition and critiques, past weeping pie crusts and sad meringues.

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Passion

Passion is not something you discover.

Passions tend to be developed. It’s not just about being intense about what you’re doing but waking up week after week, month after month, ...

Clear out the distractions

One reason you may not know your passion: you haven’t given yourself the time and space to pursue it.

Reflect on how you’re using your time, and whether or not you want to be distracted by these temptations.

Think of a passion as like an internship

Most internships serve as a trial run for a job — while you’re acquiring skills and knowledge, you’re also trying to see if you want to commit.

Just like an internship, a passion is something you learn by doing. It takes experience; it takes trial and error.

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Isabella Santos

@isasan

'Following Your Passion' Is Dead - Here's What To Replace It With

New research has come out that dismantles the idea of "follow your passion" as a recipe for career success. In fact, this advice does far more harm than good. But what should we replace it with? I suggest three frameworks that help navigate the question "What should I do with the rest of my life?"

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Don't follow your passion

The main flaw of “finding your passion” presupposes that interests and passions are fixed, rather than fluid and evolving as we age and gain wisdom and experience.

The problem with following your passion

It ignores the market. Unless you have a trust fund waiting for you, you’ll have to feed yourself and others.
It will turn a passion into a job.

Learn from Startups

Identify real needs in the market that are currently not being well met.
Assess your strengths: Whatever is easy for you that most others have a harder time with, that’s a worthy option.
Match up these two in a constantly iterative process: This process takes many years if not decades.

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Graham K.

@graham_k789

The 3 keys to passion

It's so easy to fall in love. Remember the excitement, the romance, and the lust? Sure, there were some challenges, but you were so happy. If you're like most long-term couples, the thrill has probably waned since then. Luckily, it's possible to reignite the passion - it just takes intention.

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A strong romantic relationship

Extraordinary couples are like everyone else. Except they make their love intentional.

In business, fitness, or even your hobby, you don't passively wait for things to get better. The same i...

The three keys to passion

Intimacy: Emotional closeness, communication, feeling that no one knows you better or has your back more strongly than your mate.
Thrill: Excitement, attraction, adventure.
Sensuality: The entire spectrum from kissing goodnight to holding hands, from making tender love to raw passion.

Set daily relationship intentions

Most mornings, commit to spending five minutes with your partner. Think of a relationship intention, then share it. "Today, I intend to be careful with my tone of voice when I feel impatient."

Commit spending two minutes at the end of the day reviewing your progress and ways to improve it.

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