Personal Growth for Passionate People
Five years ago, I wanted to get fit. So, I joined a gym. I paid the membership price and I was ready to rock and roll. I was excited. I imagined how my body will transform in a few months. Day one was fun. I gave my full effort and felt like a superhero. The…
At the time of writing, there are 7.6 billion people on Earth. About 360,000 humans are born every day. And the population will only rise. It has been estimated that by the year 2100, the population will grow to 11.2 billion people. You are one of the billion people living on this planet right now.…
Inspirational speeches can come from anyone What do Charles Bukowski and Steve Jobs have in common? One an infamous drunk and gambler, the other a famous business man and billionaire. But they both know how to inspire. They both have given some of the best inspirational speeches ever. And to truly inspire is not easy. …
Many successful people talk about how difficult it is to follow your passion. They talk about hustling, they talk about struggling to build a career, build a product, build a company. They emphasise how much they have to sacrifice in order to keep doing what they love. Just watch this short clip of Steve Jobs…
A “bread job” is a job that you only do to pay the bills. Franz Kafka originally coined the term when he described his work in an insurance company. It paid the bills for him and it was necessary to keep this job since he could not live off of his true passion, writing. It…
You can be anything you want to be – this is what encouraging parents usually tell their children when they are young. Just trust in yourself, trust in your abilities and work hard, then you can achieve whatever you desire. But is that really true? Can you actually be anything you want to be? If so, under which conditions?…
Time and again I discover that people with passion and desire can make anything seem fascinating! It is not important that you are fascinated by their craft itself. You can even ignore the end product or service that they are creating. But just watching people beating on their craft, day after day, year after year, and having the necessary…
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In this short video I talk about how crucial it is to know what you want to do with your life as soon as possible. It will take years, probably decades to really master any skill, so the sooner you start, the sooner you will reach mastery. If you dabble around though and either find…
When we grow up and later when we go to college, most of us have very diverse ways of spending our free time. Meeting with friends, reading, travelling, partying, doing all kinds of sports, playing video games…. There is not really one core passion that we engage in, but rather a lot of different things…
Life is so unpredictable, there are so many possible incidents that we can neither foresee nor prevent, that it seems all the more important to very carefully make the major life choices that we can in fact influence! One of them could be where to live. Another one who we decide to marry. And a…
Prakhar Verma
Moritz Schröder