Over the holidays I read “Ego is the Enemy” by Ryan Holiday.
It made me think.
His argument is that passionate people have unbridled enthusiasm but rarely accomplish anything.
These people can tell you in great detail who they intend to become and what their success will be like. They can tell you all the things they’re going to do, or have even begun, but they cannot show you their progress – because there rarely is any.
Passion is about (I am so passionate about X).
Purpose is to and for (I must do X. I was put on this earth to accomplish X. I am willing to endure X for the sake of this).
Goethe said that great passions are maladies without hope.
Ryan Holiday contends that deliberate, purposeful people operate on a different level. They hire professionals and use them. They ask questions. They ask what could go wrong. They ask for examples and plan for contingencies.
One of my colleagues may have said it best when I told him about the book:
Passion without purpose is not sustainable and purpose without passion is not enjoyable.
What do you think?
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