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If you have discovered something you are passionate about, how did you discover that thing?
Many people go through living bored, mundane, uninspired lives. Many have not taken it upon themselves to seek out what they are passionate about. I was like that for about 50 years and it seems by luck I found my mine.
How did you find yours?
Mashkur Zaman
Recently I've created a Consumer Engagement Platform for the youth of Dhaka called Nxtation. I'm happy to say that all of our shows till date has been sold out, and concept of fusion music is well appreciated in the Bangladeshi Market.
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Phillip McKay
I could draw in an attempt to make sense of my world and to sublimate.
bulbul mankani
Food is my passion and i discovered it when i asked myself what would i do easily and happily for a lifetime...
Of course its hard for people like me to have a single passion :)
Colleen Steen 500+
It IS simple...I agree..."whatever you are passionate about is effortless, time flies on wings when you do it..."
It may be hard for people like you and me to have a single passsion, because we bring passion to the experience, rather than waiting for the experience to bring passion to us.
Michael Wolok
richard moody jr 10+
I already have.
I am passionate about promoting nuclear power. Carbon-based fuels are cheap thus developing nations (and us) will use them. In the 2012 issue of Infinite Energy I will present a case for the Lake Superior Complex. It is advanced nuclear technology to tackle global warming. By installing 20,000-30,000 mW of installed capacity every year for the next 100 years, here, in the Soviet Union and China we can make a dent in eliminating carbon-based fuels something, absent cheap energy, will never occur.
My reactor complex would cost less that the stiumulus packages and make us not only energy independent but the largest exporters of hydrogen, steel, aluminum and petrochemical products anywhere in the world.
Chernobly was irrelevant. The Japanese should not build nuclear plants on the "Ring Of Fire"; hence the Diablo Canyon reactors are a bad idea. The Lake Superior complex is in the most seismically quiescent
area anywhere in the world.
I am passionate about hormesis the proven ability of organisms including humans to benefit from low-levels of radiation. This has been proven in countless studies including the most recent in Chernobyl where it was demonstrated that mice exposed to the radiation there lived longer than the control mice. The Japanese exposed to low-level radiation will live longer, more cancer-free lives than those not exposed to the radiation.
I am passionate about picketing Greenpeace in the future who I regard as environmental terrorists for shutting down nuclear power in this country. What those "geniuses" didn't do was ask themselves one simple question in the 1970's forward, "What will replace nuclear power if we shut them down?"
The answer was coal, of course, because wind and solar back then couldn't even add a trivial amount of installed capacity.
Greenpeace and their ilk over the next fifty years will cause over 50 million coal-related deaths and trillions of dollars in direct and indirect environmental costs.
richard moody jr 10+
I became passionate about hormesis simply because I put in the search parameter "benefical effects of low-level radiation" and I found hormesis. Here is a small segment of my article.
"The primary ill effect of Chernobyl with the exception of the firefighters and helicopter pilots who were exposed to high-level radiation is psychological. Wouldn’t you feel ill effects of this psychological abuse?
" Here are the facts: Cows exposed to high levels of radiation during the Trinity tests of the A-bomb in 1946 had to be euthanized because of extreme old age. Mice exposed to uranium dust at ten times the maximum dose level during the Manhattan project lived longer than control groups. Men working at Los Alamos who ingested large quantities of radioactive plutonium had lower mortality than the average population. Workers in the UK nuclear industry had a lower incidence of cancer than the general population. Moderate exposure to radon, a radioactive gas, correlates with good lung health. In fact radon is regarded as a biomedical treatment in Europe. Extremely low levels of radon correlate with elevated levels of lung cancer.
"Here are the mechanisms of hormesis: 1) Low levels of radiation stimulate the immune system; high levels suppress it, 2) Damaged cells “commit suicide”, a process called, “Apoptosis”, rather than spread the damage; this process is enhanced by low levels of radiation, 3) Repair enzymes flourish in response to low levels of radiation (that which doesn’t kill me makes me stronger), 4) The real culprit in cancer is, “Reactive Oxygen Species—ROS”, scavenging processes to remove them are enhanced by low-level radiation, but high levels depress it.
"Radiation can alter cell cycle timing. This can extend the time before the next cell division (mitosis). Damage repair is most effective before the next mitosis, so changing the available time can be important."
Frans Kellner 100+
Quote:" Damaged cells “commit suicide”, a process called, “Apoptosis”, rather than spread the damage; this process is enhanced by low levels of radiation,"
For all I know this isn't quite the case. It is rather that the cell has to revivified constantly by neighboring cells as long as it’s properly functioning. If a cell is damaged it is no longer supported and dies. If this health check on any cell fails because that mechanism is distorted it will grow independent into a tumor.
Evidence about the effect of radiation on health is hard to get for all parties that have their own agenda and interest in the subject.
Maybe make up your own mind: http://tinyurl.com/5v4axea
richard moody jr 10+
Emil Stolarsky 500+
Bill Burns
Boy I sure get it about timing and people. I try to create a sense of wonder in life by asking myself, "what interesting and amazing person am I going to meet this week and what wonderful collaboration might come from it?"
Is it a wonderful world? It is but only if there's wonder in you.
Thanks my friend.
Emil Stolarsky 500+
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
I've pondered this.
In my mind it was more a celebratory "lesson" for coaches, players and viewers than for the young man. My sense is he, as many differently-gifted people, has a closer relationship with his abilities and powers than observers do/did.
I think this deeper story behind our initial glee for/with this young man should be self-evident.
But your comment reminds me how detached our society can be from this man's reality. Which needs no pity. Only equal respect: your point.
He's used to and content being different.
So the enlightened moment in this video is when others understand the unseen connection they/we have with this delightful young man.
The only way people could see how similar he is to them, is through THEIR measurements of ability, happiness and success. Only when they saw him win in ways THEY understand quite clearly can they FINALLY understood he is more one of them than not.
I imagine he knows this.
Notice he never appears uncomfortable with himself. He is open and accepting of his enthusiastic energies and differences. By contrast, note the discomfort expressed by the coach, father and even in the body language of some of the players early on in the video.
Only when the coach dares be fully open and accepting does he, his players and the crowd get the whole picture of this player's potentials. It seems, and I agree, is unfair that he was only given four minutes at the end of the season.
What's heartening is four minutes is all this young man's irrepressible spirit needs to send a transformative message no one previously comprehended. Only four minutes for him to prove, what in fact, because of the brilliant part of his difference, has no need or desire to prove. That he's a star.
That this epiphany comes so late in the game exemplifies the lesser intelligence of those of us who measure others and ourselves by superficial exogenous non-essential norms.
A problem with win-lose societies.
Andrea
Mark Meijer 100+
Tony Kuphaldt 10+
Volunteerism is an open door to all kinds of new experiences that may just change the course of your personal life or professional life.
richard moody jr 10+
They installed their man at the bureau of Patents and Trademarks to disallow cold fusion inventions as being counter to modern physics.
Randall Mills fought for years losing valuable time to get his technology through the patent process.
Any university undertaking cold fusion research was threatened with loss of funding from Washingtion if "they had so much as one graduate student working on it"
One of the greatest electrochemists of all times, John O'M Bockris detected nuclear "ash" from his cold fusion, tritium. A known science writer went to his laboratory under the guise of doing a story on it was, in actuality, determined to prove it was af fraud. He allegedly was paid $30,000 by hot fusion lobbyists to write a book to discredit cold fusion research and researchers.
Main stream publications refuse to publish legitimate results documented hundreds of times of excess heat, produced reliably in a short period of time. This is being kept out of the journals by hot fusion scientists protecting their research dollars and their reputations. They have made a living promoting their model of physics. Along comes a paradigm shift that they refuse to recognize.
This is what is meant by pathological denial i.e. the falsificatin of facts because they contradict theory. This cabal with support from the media is slowly changing, but we lost 20 years of good reseach because of a hot fusion/conventional physics cabal.
Mireille Chéry
Bla, bla, bla, bla.....NO, YOU TAKE.....Bla, bla, bla, bla...
Please, live Bill out of this!
Peace!
Mireille Chéry
Beautiful French Bill, just beautiful!! I can only imagine, this beautiful English accent speaking French, we go crazy for this sound over here in Canada.
Yes this is it "the psychology on negociations and the intellectual games to be played", that's a thrill, isn't?? Yes, just love the game!! When it played with greatness, all parties involved, are please...well, this is passion at is best !
I'm happy for your friend in TO (Toronto-Ontario), great job!!! You should send him my website address, not for his money, but maybe doing something by putting both our strength in the same endeavours and give!
Have a great life Bill, be blessed !!
Bill Burns
"Bien sur! Every man has two countries: his own and France".
Thomas Jefferson, the day after the Battle of Yorktown, the final battle in our revolutionary war. In that battle French warships prevented the powerful British navy from shelling American troops enabling them to defeat the British. Without the French - no victory.
And one more thing, there is nothing more attractive that a woman with a French accent.
Blessing to you too.
Mireille Chéry
Sorry for the delay, got cut up in work !
Vive Napoléon et Joséphine!! I'm on the same page as you Bill, nothing more attractive, then an English man with a French accent!
Have a wonderful Saturday !
Mireille
PS: On the contrary of anybody else, I love Americans....men, and Michele Obama!
Bill Burns
Jennifer Brocato
Great question. My passion found me. It's always been in me, but it was only recently that I recognized it! It was through the hardships of life and how I overcame them when I started acting on my passion. It's always been there. Caring and helping and entertaining. It's all about "Others" for me. What I have I share in order to bring a smile, warm a heart and give some comfort to your soul. Love my friend - that is my passion!
BTW: it doesn't matter how many years it takes to pursue your passion. sometimes it just needs to develop more through experiences. I bet it was always there......
Sincerely,
Jeni
Bill Burns
I think I know what you mean which is the joy of living and being "of service" to others. It is its own reward.
Now you mentioned entertaining. What did you mean by that?
Bill
Colleen Steen 500+
Out of the composted fertile earth springs beautiful flowers......and love:>)
I'm passionate about both;>)
Jennifer Brocato
Michael Wolok
Mrityunjay Awasthy
movies andbooks
And I think, that's all there's to a purposeful existence, being away from ignorance, absent mindedness, and blindness, and self superiority, and experiencing the best to the worst, to go through the wall no matter how thick it is. Complete awareness can make the impossible seem possible, it can either make you strong or break you into a million pieces, but the fear of the outcome must never become strong enough to stop us halfway.
Without courage, without sense and understanding, without a bit of stubbornness, without trust, passion is only a commercially used word. So, whether or not you meet your passion, whether or not a miracle happens, at the end, you know you lived a life of awareness.
If your emotions never bottled down to an inspiration, then perhaps they never were meant to be.
Juliette Zahn 50+
Bill Burns
Tina Moore
At 39 I decided I didn't want to live that way and made a decision to change my life. I decided to run 40K on my 40th birthday (I had no idea how far that really was!!) Once I put that energy into place, my life turned around...dramatically! I had no idea an exercise goal would change all other aspects of my life! (Note: I had NEVER exercised before...ever!)
Because of that goal, I am now passionate about LIFE! I laugh on a daily basis whereas before I used to cry. Finding my passion was finding mySELF. Once I uncovered my inner spirit and dealt with the past pain...my life, my creativity, inspiration, vigor and energy exceeded anything I'd ever felt before.
LIFE BECAME MY PASSION, for this I am very grateful.
Thank you for this question...and I'm so glad to hear you found YOUR passion!
With a smile,
Tina
Bill Burns
Once found I think a person then has the responsibility to express the passion and to share it, nurture and grow it. Maybe this is what unleashed the miracles in one's life.
You have an inspirational story for sure. Thank you for sharing it.
Bill
Tina Moore
http://the40by40.com/2011/10/the-jog-blog-marathon/
I agree with your statement to share, nurture and grow your passion, but I think once you've discovered it, for me anyway, it's an automatic driving energy that makes you bounce out of bed excited to start the day...that's how it is for me now...
Having lived in a dark cloud for so many years...it's a brand new life...and yes, I want to share, love, nurture, and help as much as I can!
Bill Burns
Great pictures on your blog!
Juliette Zahn 50+
Tina Moore
Juliette: Thank you...what a lovely comment! I am in contact with most of my students to this day even though I'm now in a different city, so I guess I did something right! :) Love travels miles...
Roy Mulder
I never tire of diving and what I have seen happen to the ocean in front of my own eyes, has motivated me to devote my life to stewarding the ocean and enlightening people on what is there to be seen and taken care of.
Bill Burns
Keep up your excellent work.
Bill
richard moody jr 10+
Once a cabal evolves the scientic method goes out the window as the cabal consolidates its power.The goal of every scientific cabal is to stop paradigm shifts and preserve the status quo. This is anathema to good (true) science. Unless the American public actually sees their lives impacted negatively by the cabals, the business of science will remain broken.
Bill Burns
Bill
Phillip Beaver 10+
I prefer "understanding" to "science," as I think science is not well understood. Also, I prefer "truth most of which is unknown" to "truth," for clarity. I'd like to learn your thoughts on these two issues.
I am aware of people who try to force reality into their paradigm, for example, Albert Einstein using a "Cosmological Factor," to pretend the dynamic universe is static. But I am unfamiliar with and would like to learn an example of a "scientific cabal."
Phil
Aine Donahue
Bill Burns
I began meditating just to get 20 minutes of relief from anxiety. I had had no training in any meditation technique so I would just sit and concentrate on breathing. I got better and better at it and began to relax more. Then one morning it became crystal clear to me that I was going down a road of victim-hood, anger and resentment and that I was becoming a bitter angry man. I did not want this.
Before me was a stark choice. Choose the road of love or the road of fear. I chose love but didn't know how to bring love back into my life. Then I pictured my then 15 year old daughter as an infant in my arms. I broke down and cried like a little boy. That is when love flooded back into my life.
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I, I chose the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost
Blessings on you dear Aine.
richard moody jr 10+
Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
Excellent paraphrase!
Andrea
Aine Donahue
My coma was the result of an infection; I came down with mastitis (clogged milk ducts) 9 days after my 3rd daughter was born. Since I'd had several bouts with it when my other 2 daughters were breast feeding, I thought I knew what to expect & went about my business.Turned out that I was infected with MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) which is what causes toxic shock which shuts your body systems down. Last thing I remember before the coma was being put on a ventilator & hearing the people in the ER babbling about a 20/15 blood pressure, fever of 105, extreme allergic reaction (my husband says my lips and extremities were blue while the rest of me was bright red), & then my husband next to my ear telling me I couldn't die.
My time in the coma is a black hole. That really bothered me. I questioned my husband incessantly, but since my brain was not working well, I never remembered the answers & asked the questions over & over. I did, however, have many recurring dreams in the following years, all of them disturbing. The two most frightening were of not being able to move & choking on a huge wad of gum that was threatening to close my throat. It was a few years before my husband realized that the dream about not being able to move came from the fact that they restrained my hands because even in a coma, I kept trying to pull the ventilator tube out. Then I finally realized the choking dream was about the tube. 2 years ago, I dreamed that the gum was a long purse strap, & I finally pulled it all out. That dream has never returned, tho' I am violently claustrophobic now.
Clint Pace
Yuri Gomez
In these days of accelerated innovations, it seems finding "passion" is the answer to our problems. But maybe is the other way around: We don't find "passion" on things we do.
We think, successful people find their passion, but I believe people that are really successful don't find it, They are already passionate about making things happend. They are not worried about the results to get, therefore they enjoy every moment of action.
So, I believe it is a shift of awareness, a change of direction.
That way we discover that every moment is different so we just enjoy it. Not because We must enjoy it, but because is the only way it happens.
I live in Peru, and a few years ago I believed poor people has a lack of happiness, but I realized that is not true. I realized, it is not the situation that makes us happy or being passionate about things, instead it is the other way around.
I'd like to share this quote :
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
Colleen Steen 500+
I totally agree with you...we don't "find" passion...people are already passionate about making things happen...not worried about the results to get, therefor they enjoy every moment of action...yes...yes....yes!!!
I agree that it is a shift of awareness...not to "find" passion, but rather to create passion....discovery in every moment.....not becaue we must enjoy it, but because it is the only way it happens....yes....yes...yes!!!
I also realized, by traveling in remote areas of our world (including the mountains of Peru, BTW), that it is not the situation that makes us happy or passionate about things, instead, it is the other way around....yes...yes...yes!!! Thank you for that insightful comment:>)
Yuri Gomez
I very much appreciate your words. also I'm happy to know You have visited Peru .
Thank You
Colleen Steen 500+
Jaime Lubin 10+
charlotte chang
Bill Burns
I HAD to find myself again and to find my passion or was doomed to a sad existence.
Luckily for me I have found myself and my passion and have reclaimed my life.
Passionate people are engaged in all that life has to offer and I have been experiencing this too.
Thank you for sharing your talents here with us.
Bill
Yuri Gomez
I'm glad what I share can help all... Just as other people's sharing help me.
It's amazing to know we started finding ourselves.
Thank you for a challenging question..
Juliette Zahn 50+
Thank you for this quote Yuri. It is so true. And I appreciate your view:)
Jaime Lubin 10+
Bill Burns
Like the way you expressed that!
Bill