Passion

One question that I hear and may not have a right answer is “How do you measure passion?”. When I hear this question, (I almost always hear this discussion during training sessions) it makes me laugh. The reason is, we are so metamorphosed that we always think in terms of metrices :-). “Man, you need not measure passion, look at the other person’s eyes”, is almost always my answer. If you really want to see it, that is the place where you see it. And if someone wants to measure it, all I tell is “god forbid and pardon this poor soul for his (her) ignorance”.

 OK, coming back to the point, I felt there is yet another way. Ask this question “What keeps you awake early in the morning? (read 4:00am or earlier)”. If there is anything that keeps you awake, this could be something that you are passionate about. (By the way, it is not insomnia. You better see a doctor then)

I have tried asking this question with different set of people and I get varied responses. Many a times I see people laughing away at that question, they claim to say that there is nothing that keeps them away from their sleep. I don’t know, if that is someone’s case. If it is true for you, you better be aware. Here, mostly what I have observed is, people are actually thinking deep for answer to this question while they try to make me feel that it is an irrelevant one. If someone is trying to do that, I would tell that this is a good sign. At least, you have experienced it once in your life.

I have also seen my best people, being completely lost when they do what they love the most. If you are not sure why you do it that way, it is very nicely explained in the book, Flow : The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Note: I woke up quiet early today morning and I felt like writing this early enough. Before I become lazy and forget :-)