Comments on: Can passion be taught? – part 3 – the key is producing

By: Sukumar

Sukumar — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:54:58 +0000

Ashutosh,
Thanks for the kind words. I think “competition” gets a bad rap unnecessarily. Without competition the entire field of competitive sport ceases to exist. Would Nadal be as good without Federer and vice versa? I don’t think so. Please see some insights on competition from Subba above.

I think Vision and Goal are interchangeable. It depends how we interpret those words. Even in my post I think I have said Vision/Goal due to the same reason.

I liked your idea of looking at the possibilities or to-be picture of your current job to become passionate. That’s a great insight.

By: Ashutosh Didwania

Ashutosh Didwania — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:56:23 +0000

Brilliant post Sukumar. The notion of passionate consumer and passionate producer really makes a hell lot of sense. You’ve put it bang on when you depict the trajectory of ‘practicing one’s passion’ at the highest level and indeed its so true that living the passion on a daily basis and imbibing it in your daily activities could lead to unimaginable results.

Slightly disagree with you on the aspect of competition enabling passion. I think even if such a scenaario does materialize, the resultant passion would be shortlived since it would be dependent on external factors instead of being innate. So the moment the externalities change the passion would trickle down unless it has truly become innate by then.

I also feel that passion resuting out of a ‘vision’ would be much more powerful than one emerging from a ‘goal’. Goals get overpowered and replaced by better ones very easily but vision itself leads to the formation of multiple goals thereby expanding the bandwidth for passion.

By: Quora

Quora — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:50:05 +0000

What do you do if you’re ready to quit a 9-to-5 job but don’t have an idea that you’re passionate about?…

Saying that passion is a key ingredient is to state the obvious. But like yourself I have no preconceived passion. I work passionately on whatever it is I decide to do. For people like you and me this strategy works better instead of trying to find the…

By: Sukumar

Sukumar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:08:57 +0000

Thanks a lot Nirmala. Your post has given pointers to several insights. Thanks for joining the conversation.

By: Nimmy

Nimmy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:40:41 +0000

I put in a comment on this post earlier today….but it seems to have lost its way for some strange reason. (My comments on your other posts found their destination though.) So, please bear with me, while I go “Ctrl+V”ing again. (Thankfully, I saved it as it was a long one).

Or, on second thoughts, as I wrote a post about this post of yours on my own blog and included a copy of my own comment there….why not simply provide the link to my post this time around? (Sheesh….complex!)

http://nirmala-km.blogspot.com/2008/10/see-what-i-found.html