Sunday

It's a colorful Sunday afternoon, depending on where you live in the States. A second look at Passion and a few ideas on where to look for it. A review of the new marathon of a movie by Scorsese and the perspective change in the middle of development is worthy of appreciation and exhaustion. More on the divinity of nature and a quote we first heard from Joe Rogan that led us to a center for peace.

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Yesterday, I talked about the summary of Steven Pressfield’s The War Of Art; my reflection focused on Passion and how it is difficult to follow your Passion if you have yet to figure out what your Passion is. In that piece is another 4 Minute Book Summary by Nik Goke on Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You. In Newport's book and his work in general, he focuses on turning what you already do into a passion, becoming a craftsman, and making the doing part the Passion.

During the days of historically low unemployment, you don't have to be so good. Still, if you don't want to be a craftsman, don't want to improve your skill sets, and are not willing to expand your experience and credentials on your own time, what you are doing might not be your Passion. If you love to work, Cal Newport is a great fit, and one of the highlights Goke points out is the real payoff to doing the extra work necessary to improve your craft. Goke lists this as lesson #3:

Like taking on loans, debt, or a home mortgage, chasing promotions can lock you into certain situations, making it harder for you to grow. The higher you go up the corporate ladder, the more time you will be required to give.

If you break down a few components of job satisfaction, Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness would be on the list. The ability to feel in control of your work, to feel as though you are good at it and can get better, and that you are working with people who share the values of hard work and are also good at what they do. Goke pulls some of that from the Self-Determination Theory, but if you think about the jobs you've had, both the good and the bad, the reason you thought it was a good or a bad job is probably within those guidelines.

Finding your Passion is hard; if it wasn't and everybody was willing to do the hard work to find their Passion, we'd have fewer front-line workers running around. If you made it all the way through two days of passion talk and are ready to dig into another write-up Goke did on finding your true Passion, check it out here:

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A new Martin Scorsese film called Killer’s of the Flower Moon hit theaters this weekend, and various stories have hit my feed on the movie, Scorsese and how long movies are running these days. My reflection comes after reading a piece by Desiree Ibekwe from the NYT. Ibekwe reports that as Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio worked through the screenplay, they decided it lacked soul. Instead of a police procedural about a bunch of white guys, they needed to change some perspectives.

There is conflict within that statement; on one side, I applaud a couple of the best people at their trade, recognizing they were telling the wrong (part of) the story. The other side is disappointed; we still must applaud the awareness. Based on the description of the movie and the true story it is adapted from, it's another brutal look at greed and the lengths the white guys will go to for more money.

Like 12 Years A Slave, this looks like a good movie and a good story to tell. I must put myself in the right place to see it and sit with the content. For some of us, the weight is heavy and hard to shake. In our Greed is Good world, stories like this will persist.

Yesterday, I wrote about the praise of nature, and along that same vein, Moss And Fogg show us exactly what a divine painting looks like. Thanks to Nicholas Steinberg for the images.

Moss And Fog

Love Is Noise - The Verve.

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