Ep. 6 - Perseverence - Reviewing the Main Takeaways from the Series
Millennial's Search for Meaning
In our last episode, Sam and Aaron do a recap of the main points from all the previous episodes so we have it all in one place to draw from. We understand that there is no perfect choice, that passion is a neutral state informed from our development, how to make that tangible and sustainable, and we’ve personalized it through exercises.
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Ep. 5 - Making Meaning Sustainable
Millennial's Search for Meaning
As we continue to connect with our passions and make them tangible, we will at some point lose steam, lose faith, or even question all of it. Passion is hard to make sustainable!
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Ep. 4 - Making Meaning Tangible
Millennial's Search for Meaning
A big issue in the passion conversation is that everything is fantastical. Being a writer doesn’t mean writing an article; it means being a NYT best seller. While it’s important to have an inspiring vision, if you can’t fulfill your passion today, you’re focusing on one side and have lost the journey.
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Ep. 3 Bonus - EXERCISE - Reflection on the Origins of Our Passions
Millennial's Search for Meaning
In our second personalization exercise, Aaron guides you through a visualization, a deep dive through your life to uncover where your specific passion(s) came from and how they can be best considered.
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Ep. 3 - You're Not Lost - Passion Isn't Always Pretty
Millennial's Search for Meaning
When we connect to our passion(s), we can get a rush of excitement. However, when the path isn’t smooth, we can feel even more lost. We thought once you find what you’re passionate about you won’t work a day in your life? What’s wrong with us!?
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Ep. 2 Bonus - EXERCISE - Exploring Our Passions and Preferences
Millennial's Search for Meaning
In our first exercise to personalize the content, Sam guides us through an exercise called The Five-Fold Why, which allows us to explore the different sides of passions and preferences: how do we want to feel about ourselves and what impact do we want to have, and what are our most desired ways to do it.
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Ep. 2 - WTF is Passion, Anyway?
Millennial's Search for Meaning
Intuitively, we understand passion to be an activity or thing that makes us feel that alive, spark feeling, so we pursue those types of things, hoping one will keep making us feel this way all the time. But none does. Is the idea of passion just idealism, or are we thinking about this wrong?
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Ep. 1 - The Fantasy of the Perfect Choice
Millennial's Search for Meaning
We're told that the key to a happy path is to follow our passion, so we keep trying new places, people, hobbies, and careers. After a while of failures, and even some successes, we start to feel lost or empty.
info_outlineAs we continue down the path to connecting with our passions and preferences and making them tangible, we will at some point lose steam, lose faith, and lose track. We might even question all of it, thinking we have ourselves totally wrong. It turns out passion is a hard thing to make sustainable.
What we learn is that sustainability in passion requires balancing a handful of principles–practicality and fantasy, self focus and impact focus–while making sure our basic needs are met and not letting preference issues derail us entirely.
Here we really understand the full map of living a meaningful life and where we might get lost along the way so we can be proactive and also pull ourselves back when we get lost.