What is truer than truth? The story." Isabel Allende is a very talented author who begins her TED talk with a story about when she was asked to carry the American Flag at the Olympics. The key word in the Olympics is passion. She believes that heart is what drives us and determines our fate. I agree. Intrinsic motivation is because of passion. People do what they do because they want to. Some people love education and learning which makes school fun and they tend to do better. Some people love sports and demote their lives to improving at a certain skill. I wonder what drives people to be passionate about a certain skill. I am passionate about cheer because I love camaraderie and the rush you get when everything goes right. I also think parents are a large part of children's decisions in life. Some kids want to be just like their parents or follow their path. This can be positive because then the parents can help their children throughout life. However, the kid is not thinking for themselves and making their own decisions, but rather, letting their parents help them through everything. An article on passion stated, "When passion lets loose, you drive focus, cultivate mastery, leverage spontaneity, foster creativity, build intuition and live toward mission. The dots connect. Clarity emerges. Your own bar of excellence sets higher, and you become infatuated with exceeding it." All of these are powerful emotions that many people look for in certain aspects of life in order to find what they are passionate about. If passion can foster creativity, then why aren't more people passionate about life. I wonder what the world would look like if everyone was passionate about something. Like Dan Pink keeps repeating in A Whole New Mind; right-brained people will rule the world. I guess that too much passion is a bad idea. We still need the people in society that will do the dirty, but essential jobs. However, passion helps people decide their future. For example, my dad loves to teach pilates and he is paid for it. These kinds of jobs are dream jobs. So passion, overall, can raise creativity and help prepare for your future; however, if too many people are passionate, then the world will become unbalanced. Passion is a complex subject, but opens many new doors.
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