You and I have certainly grown up in very different environments and I’m not going to pretend to know your personal goals or expectations. Still, I remember what it was like to be twenty-something: I loved music, I loved ladies, and I took the task of working on my abs so seriously, it probably qualifies as my first job.
But today, three decades later, my priorities have shifted.
I’m lucky to be surrounded by Millennials on my staff whose spirit I truly delight in. They have those gifts all young people have — moxie, a sense of humor, excitability, imagination, impulse. And these guys are not just dreamers, they are also some of the scrappiest, most resourceful people I know. (In fact, they’ve somehow managed to see every television program I tell them about, even though none of them have cable TV!)
Millennials have so much excitement constantly competing for their attention. If I have an urgent assignment for my Millennials, I don't email them (or, God forbid, call them), I just send them a text.
My point is, when you're 22, life is fast, the music is loud, your teeth are white, and the options are endless. You ladies have such great hair, the bouncers sweep you right to the front of the lines. It's an era of go-go fun and invincibility. It's a carnival of life. But that focus eventually shifted rather radically for me when a different force took hold of my life, a force that's the primary catalyst for making something — anything — of yourself out there.
Before all else, you’ve got to find your passion.
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I’ve always said that passion is the genesis of genius
Passion is a force that awakens you. Passion blows the lid off of your imagination, your