Sophia Week 2: Why You Should Stay Passionate

 

                               

    The title of this blog post sounds a little redundant, doesn’t it? Being told to follow your passion is fairly common rhetoric, and yet, many people reject the idea. They feel that following their passion restricts them to only having one passion or that it's an unrealistic ideal. On some level, this is true, but people often forget that passions can be applied in different ways. In his article about what following your passion means, Steve Rose talks about a man named Gary Vaynerchuk. Vaynerchuk is an entrepreneur who launched his family’s small wine store into a sixty-million-dollar business. Originally, Veynerchuk’s passion had been collecting baseball cards, but he transferred his passion for collecting cards to becoming a wine expert. Even so, wine is not Veynerchuk’s true passion, and he has moved on to digital marketing. Vaynerchuk's passion is not centered around the subject of what he was doing, but instead on the business behind jobs. He was passionate about business, and he refocused his drive on different subjects. Passions are not limited to specific subjects.

When I think about passion, a lot of things come to mind. I love analyzing the tv shows and movies I watch, the books I’ve read, and creating art. But, all these activities are just symptoms of one underlying passion. I like understanding and expressing emotions, and more than that, I love sharing the conclusions I come to. Figuring out how to channel these motivations into my everyday life is really complicated sometimes, and it manifests in a lot of unexpected ways. The most unexpected is probably school assignments. Whenever I find myself struggling with an assignment, I always redirect it through my passion. If I’m having trouble with a really boring Judaics question, I can connect it to places in Judaism that make me emotional, like camp. In English, I can always think about how a character or another person feels, and even in History, I can think about how the people at the time must have felt. Rethinking school subjects this way gives me the motivation I need to finish my tasks (although, maybe it's why I have such a hard time with math).

What are you guys passionate about?

Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2022 at 8:27 PM

    Applying your passions to things you're procrastinating is such a good idea, and really can be implemented into so many things in life (even if it doesn't apply to math). Maybe I can even start using this technique to keep myself organized!

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  2. Eva GottesfeldSeptember 8, 2022 at 1:42 PM

    I think that while it is good to channel your passion into your everyday life, it's also important to nurture your passion in bigger ways too. For me, I join groups and communities that have a really big impact on me.

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