You don’t need passion
Passion runs hot and burns out, while people with purpose — think of it as passion combined with reason — are more dedicated and have control over their direction.
230
578 reads
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
How to overcome fear of rejection
How to embrace vulnerability
Why vulnerability is important for personal growth
Related collections
Similar ideas to You don’t need passion
Feel Passion & Purpose
- People think passion has to come from being excited about the tasks you perform. It doesn’t. There are 6 ways to derive passion from your work: Task passion, achievement passion, creative passion, people passion, learning passion and competence passion.
- Purpose is about creati...
You don’t need a team
As a solo founder, I started off by breaking one of the cardinal VC rules that says you can’t build a successful startup on your own. Never mind the research that says solo-founded companies ar...
Passion Is Overrated
- It’s a basic axiom that people do better work when they find that work meaningful. Bosses who take this to mean that it is their job to provide purpose tend to overstep.
- Insisting that people have passion for their job can place unnecessary pressure on both boss and employee.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates