Passion

Great words from Tony Hsieh saying about passion are:

“The passion type of happiness is also known as flow, where peak performance meets peak engagement, and time flies by. Research has shown that of the three types of happiness, this is the second longest lasting. Professional athletes sometimes refer to this state as “being in the zone.”

It is nothing greater than doing what you love and love what you do. One of my old passions is playing game. I am used to be nerdy geek. I remember when I was in junior high, I bought weekly PC Magazine and read it like my friends read Manga. The section that my computer-nerdy friends and I always read is the game. Some popular games were WoW I, Tomb Raider, and Konami Soccer, etc… that were always our favorite topics.

The passion of playing game gives us a combination of imagination and perceived control. It fantasizes us with great plots of story and many toys. Games also give you the perceived control of your life that sometimes you cannot afford in real life. You can be a loser in real life; however, you will have a chance to become a hero. Therefore, playing game is kind of excuse so people can plug out of real lives and transform themselves to a hero. A sense of flying time is true when you completely immerse yourself into some activity you love. I think it is true for job and love. If you really love someone passionately, you think the time you are with him/her is so short and that passion is unstoppable and it transforms itself to missing feeling.

My new passion is business. However, I feel stuck at finding an industry that I want to build my business passion on that. It is like a crude oil, but I don’t know what to made from it.

…Sigh…

Ahha...Ask Google “How to find your passion”…Find out some great words:

"Passion – including the manifestations (sự biêu hiện) of passion we feel within ourselves and therefore call “our” – is not something we can grasp or own but a force of nature, connected to and influenced by things that extend far beyond any puny (nhỏ bé) human self. Finding it isn’t like bagging an expensive trinket; it’s like leaving comfortable, familiar terrain behind us and throwing ourselves into the sea.
Many of us avoid taking the plunge.
We turn away from the ocean, ignoring the roar of breakers, refusing to notice how our hair prickles when we smell the salt water. Then we spend years looking for our “lost” passion in the sand of a grotesquely overpopulated place I call the “Isle of Yeah-but.”

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/How-to-Find-Your-Passion-Martha-Beck#ixzz2OFPFRDOz

I was jogging during the day, and then I felt pain in my leg. However, I keep persevering and finishing my daily jogging. Honestly, my jogging is on and off, but I always talk to myself to come back. I am not perfect and neither you are. So, forget the imperfection of your talent or your passion is. When you have a chance, do something you love and hang on there. Now, jogging and writing is my passion. My goal is keeping those two things as my rituals like brushing my teeth.  I feel absolutely happier when I finish my jogging and writing.

One learned lesson is passion doesn’t come easily like pleasure. It requires you to take longer time and suffer more painful experiences to achieve its happiness. It is like that artists playing music in a concert, they are much happier than the audience.

My recommendations are being the player of your passion game and play your game passionately.

It is no seat for spectacular or audience in the “PASSION” stadium.