Nature's Case for Passion

Good Morning AGAIN!

After posting the WEU spurred by my frustration with our political positioning...I was inundated with notes requesting a "regular" Weekend Update...

"I am tired of all of the political positioning...please make me think...and look at life a bit differently" "give me your regular update"...was a common theme...

OK...OK...

I heard you!

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Passion is not enough...

I am convinced that one can not be truly effective or happy until they align their passions with their activities...

This past week...I made a few comments on twitter to that extent...

Like...

"Passion without action is like food without flavor"

We are taken in by "Passion Peddlers" who promote your need to find your passion...and stop short of anything else...

I agree that one's first step is to find that passion...but that is the first step in the journey to success...

If I were to follow the "Passion Peddler's" advice...I would call my trip to New York complete if I simply stood up and took one step north...

The last time I checked...my normal stride is 28inches and not 1400 miles long...

My desire (my passion) to travel to New York (not a real desire or passion) is just the start...from that point forward...it requires a lot of activity...if I intend to walk there...

OK...an epiphany of the utterly obvious!

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ANTS!

The rainy season is upon us...and with that brings ANTS!

I am proud to say that they have again been evicted from our house...but not before I made a cool observation...

Social insects actually all living creatures (except for man)...are very specialized...

Man as far as I can observe is driven by passion...otherwise...

They are driven by their DNA...

Nature has programmed them through trail and error...and natural selection...

The successful survive and the failures are not repeated...

Let's go back to the ants...

Persistent creatures...

It is estimated that there are over 250,000 of them for every human...that is a lot of ants...

An ant is not an ant...there are workers and drones...each fulfilling a specific function...SPECIALISTS...

It is specialization that has made them successful...

There is no such thing as a multi-talented ant...

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Natures replacement for passion?  or it is the first step?

True passion, like DNA cannot be suppressed...

Nature couldn't trust that passion would be 100% effective...so it programmed the specialization directly in the genetics of its creatures...

or it may be that genetic programming may be the first step and...

Passion may be a long term experiment...testing the possibility that passion may be more effective than DNA programming...

That question can only be answered by ascertaining the position of humans in the global experiment...are we more advanced creatures or actually lower?

The important thing to note...ants have genetics...we have passion...

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Ants and Action...

Ants have no choice...what they are programmed to do they do...

They don't wake up in the morning and decide what they want to do...

They don't decide that they are tired of their plot in life and change their career...

They are what they are...they accept it and go about their ant things!

We on the other hand spend most of our lives chasing our passions...

We decide...

We sometimes act on our decisions...

We end up disappointed and we decide to do something else...

We back into the success equation in a backwards fashion...

We do thing and then decide whether we like it...

THAT IS WRONG...

The success equation is worked from "left to right"

We need to identify our passion...(our DNA) and then act upon it...

It is better for success to spend time identifying exactly what we are passionate about...than wasting time...acting then assessing if that action aligns with our passions...

We need to be more like ants...

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Where does this all end up?

Passion and DNA may actually be interchangeable!

Whatever you call it we need to come to grips with specialization...

Each of us has been designed to be one thing...and to fulfill an specific function...

FIND THAT FUNCTION...

What have you been designed by nature to do?

Then do it...

Do it happily...

Don't try to do something you weren't programmed to do...you'll fail...

I once had a great mentor tell me...many people aspire to be a Master Black Belt...but if they can't do statistics in their head...like you...they aren't MBBs!

Some people aspire to be company presidents...but they lack the programming...the Passion...the DNA...

Believing that you can be something different or more than you are programmed to be is a delusion!

Stop trying to live impossible dreams...get real...

If you are not at the top of your game...RIGHT NOW...you may be in the wrong game!

Stop...

Look at yourself...

Realign with your passion...

Accept yourself for what you are...and

BEGIN ACTING on it!

Enough Said!

Pura Vida!