I was listening to the radio this morning and the radio hosts started to talk about a book regarding attractive people and why they are attractive.
The 3 key attributes so far revealed are confidence, authenticity and display of passion.. These attributes translate into attractive characteristics (people),in the book’s case, men find attractive in women.
I find this not surprising but at the same time interesting to point out because everything we do reflects how the world perceives us. It is difficult for example when one doesn’t know their direction in life to know what she is passionate about and therefore reflect a less confident or authentic self. It’s no wonder people say cliches like ”fake it till you make it”.
Fortunately, I have found my passion and in doing so, everything else seems to align itself. I’m sure business owners and entrepreneurs will all tell you alike that a successful business requires passion. And with that, confidence and authenticity comes with it.
I think if education revolves around life management skills: learning about confidence, honesty, and searching for passion rather than memorizing theories and repeating the same cirriculum over and over again, we will head towards a better informed and secured society.
Carrie said,
March 20, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Though “passions” can change over time, and the word itself suggests a certain amount of temporariness (passion is intense and fleeting; unsustainable over a long period of time). Doesn’t “find your passion” end up being yet another business-speak cliché?
My dictionary has multiple definitions for ‘passion’, the first one reading: “strong and barely controllable emotion”… and it also mentions the Passion of Christ “suffering, agony, martyrdom”.
When comparing passion to business, I think it can get dangerous. Sure, passion is important — at first, just like in a romantic relationship. But passion needs to turn into something long-lasting: romantically speaking, passion & lust turn into a different type of love in order to be successful over a long period of time. And just as in business: passion is necessary, but it turns into something else eventually — which is why those life management skills you mention are so important: tools to sustain or morph the passion.