Comments on: Passion is highly overrated: Redux http://alexiapetrakos.com/musings/passion-is-highly-overrated-redux/ Not your average eclectic... Thu, 12 May 2011 20:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alexia http://alexiapetrakos.com/musings/passion-is-highly-overrated-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Alexia Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:45:42 +0000 http://alexiapetrakos.com/?p=229#comment-44 Thanks for the comment, Donna. Yes it makes sense, and I do get it - the passion thing isn't lost on me ;) It's the word I'm getting hung up on - and I wrote my very last post on the whole thing today... Thanks for the comment, Donna.
Yes it makes sense, and I do get it – the passion thing isn’t lost on me ;)

It’s the word I’m getting hung up on – and I wrote my very last post on the whole thing today…

]]> By: Donna http://alexiapetrakos.com/musings/passion-is-highly-overrated-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Donna Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:06:55 +0000 http://alexiapetrakos.com/?p=229#comment-40 I understand what you are saying, but I think that in the context you are discussing "passion" means "love". When people say "find your passion", they mean something you have a sustainable interest in, an interest sustainable enough to push you to do what's necessary to make a living at it. For a scanner, I think that means understanding the overarching connections between your various interests. For example, my most sustained passion is textiles. This has at times led me to do far more hemstitiching and embroidery than my home-ec class required, to make many of my clothes through high school, to get very excited by an exhibit on underwear through the ages, to do complicated beadwork, to learn to lucet, and on and on and on. Because I know my interests within this overarching area wander about and vary with intensities, I plan my business to include several income streams from vary different aspects of it, everything from producing a variety of types of work, to doing historical reneactments, to acting as an agent for other textile artists, to providing a place for other textile artist to work, to selling supplies and on and on. Does that make sense? I understand what you are saying, but I think that in the context you are discussing “passion” means “love”. When people say “find your passion”, they mean something you have a sustainable interest in, an interest sustainable enough to push you to do what’s necessary to make a living at it.

For a scanner, I think that means understanding the overarching connections between your various interests. For example, my most sustained passion is textiles. This has at times led me to do far more hemstitiching and embroidery than my home-ec class required, to make many of my clothes through high school, to get very excited by an exhibit on underwear through the ages, to do complicated beadwork, to learn to lucet, and on and on and on. Because I know my interests within this overarching area wander about and vary with intensities, I plan my business to include several income streams from vary different aspects of it, everything from producing a variety of types of work, to doing historical reneactments, to acting as an agent for other textile artists, to providing a place for other textile artist to work, to selling supplies and on and on. Does that make sense?

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