{"id":2548,"date":"2018-08-02T01:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T01:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2018-08-02T01:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T01:36:07","slug":"classic-post-follow-your-passion-or-develop-your-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/?p=2548","title":{"rendered":"Classic Post: Follow Your Passion — or Develop Your Passion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following story appeared as a guest post by Mark Kinsley on Q’s Views<\/em><\/strong><\/a> — the blog of Mark Quinn. \u00a0I have obtained the permission of Los Dos Marcos<\/em> to reproduce it in part here. \u00a0Click here<\/a> to read the original post.<\/p>\n

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A straw wrapper made into a rose — by someone with passion. He or she won’t be a waiter for long.<\/p><\/div>\n

I want to feature this story here because young men are complaining that there are no jobs available. \u00a0I’m not certain that’s entirely true. \u00a0What may be more likely is that the jobs on offer aren’t important enough, high-profile enough or well-paying enough. \u00a0I concede all of that may be true. \u00a0But it’s more likely that the available jobs don’t sync with the very popular advice to pursue your passion. \u00a0Enter The Story\u00a0of the Scullery Maid, as originally told to Mark Kinsley by the Wizard of Ads Roy. H. Williams<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Story of the Scullery Maid<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

As a scullery maid, she scrubbed stone floors. One day, with the afternoon off work, she went to listen to a famous intellectual speaking in her town. When his speech was over, nervous and timid, she mustered a moment of courage and stepped into the aisle to speak to the professor. She confessed that she wanted to be like the famous doctor and travel the world giving talks and sharing ideas.<\/p>\n

He said to her, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m nothing more than a scullery maid,\u201d she confessed. \u201cI scrub stone floors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the stone made of?\u201d asked the professor. The maid did not know. \u201cFind out what the stone is made of and send me a paper,\u201d said the professor.<\/p>\n

With that they cordially parted ways. The scullery maid wasted no time. She went to her master\u2019s home and examined the stone floors, asking him what they were made of. When her master told the maid all he knew, she went to the library to learn more about that particular kind of rock. From there she went to the quarry where the stone was sourced and the factory where they were shaped. She put all her newfound knowledge down on paper.<\/p>\n

After months of research and editing, she mailed her paper to the professor and he replied with a simple statement. \u201cGood work. What is under the stone?<\/p>\n

Excited that the man she admired had taken time to respond, but also confused by his question, the scullery maid walked over to a loose stone, lifted it from the floor, and saw a single ant. She replied to the professor that under the stone was a single ant. He responded, telling her to find out everything there is to know about ants and send him another paper. For this paper she went even further than the previous. It took her more than a year. She traveled to every library in the land, spoke with educators knowledgeable about bugs, and spent hours observing ants\u2019 behavior in their natural environment. When the paper was complete, she mailed it to the professor and he replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations, you are now the world\u2019s foremost expert on ants,\u201d he told her.<\/p>\n

She spent the rest of her years traveling the world, sharing ideas and giving speeches about ants.<\/p>\n

Notice that the maid didn’t begin with a passion for ants. \u00a0Instead she had a larger goal that becoming passionate about ants enabled her to reach.<\/p>\n

A young man I know dreamed of working in production at Disney. He had an opportunity to move to Orlando to live temporarily with a family friend and contacted Disney World to get an interview. \u00a0He succeeded in getting the interview, and took the only job available to him — working as a parking lot attendant at the Magic Kingdom. \u00a0Viewing this as a chance to get a foot in the door, he pursued the opportunity with enthusiasm, even posting a photo of his name badge on Instagram. \u00a0Although he has not realized his ultimate goal\u00a0yet, he has a better chance of being promoted within Disney than as a stranger to them.<\/p>\n

The German poet Goethe said it this way, \u201cCease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

So how about you?<\/strong> \u00a0What is your long-term passion? \u00a0What doors are open to you now? \u00a0What small steps can you take today to improve your motivation? \u00a0Add your comments below.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following story appeared as a guest post by Mark Kinsley on Q’s Views — the blog of Mark Quinn. \u00a0I have obtained the permission of Los Dos Marcos to reproduce it in part here. \u00a0Click here to read the original post. I want to feature this story here because young men are complaining that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11,15,6,14,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-excellence","category-goethe","category-jobs","category-passion","category-perseverance","category-work-ethic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therealgeobooth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}