Four Things About Passion
(An abridged transcript of a TEDx talk given my me on 23rd Apri, 2016 in Bangalore - https://www.facebook.com/TEDxBMSCE/posts/1320728574621010:0 ) In an online survey comprising 8000 respondents only 30% were found to be doing their dream job. That is a terrible statistic. That’s almost 3 out of 4 people not getting to do something they had desired to do. So, what do they do then? Live life in frustration and anger and be complacent about it? Absolutely NOT. They can still live their passion, despite doing whatever they might have chosen to do, perhaps under duress. You all would have heard a number of times people saying, “Guys, you have to follow your passion…” But how do you do that? How do you know what you are passionate about? The first thing about passion is shiddat, intensity. I’ve plagiarized the word shiddat from Minakshi, a friend of mine. I wasn’t finding publishers for my second book, which was not in fact a sequel to The Ekkos Clan. I gave up in between and started
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