Mindset

“What I’m talking about is taking your interests seriously enough to have the courage to stay moving. You can give stuff away. You can abandon things. You can tolerate failure because you know that tomorrow there is more.”

I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at... See more

I had a young man stop me in the street when I was walking who said he followed my advice made $80,000 in sales but stopped because it wasn’t his passion.

He asked me “what should I do with my life?”

I didn’t have time to answer him then so I’ll say this:

Most people think following your passion means doing something you love, but that’s not true. It... See more

What determines your success isn’t “What do you want to enjoy?” The question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?” The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences, but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.

"Passion" comes from the Latin

"passio" which means

"suffering" and "endurance."

So people think that following your passion means doing something you love, when it really means finding something that you are willing to suffer for.