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Episode:

The Problem with Your Passion
Category: Arts and Design
Duration: 00:16:33
Publish Date: 2016-08-22 06:00:00
Description:

Passion is temperamental, ethereal, and a weak material to build a business on. It should be your guiding star, not the foundation for your business.

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Episode Summary

In this episode, Bryce discusses:

  • The challenge of finding your passion
  • How working on your passion can snuff it out
  • How outside influences affect your passion
  • How freelancing allows the flexibility to pursue your passion -- but that passion can't be the only thing fueling your freelance business
  • How work shaped Bryce's passions
  • The importance of "not losing the magic"
  • What, exactly, is the creative "spark"
  • How passion and the creative spark can be snuffed out by real life
  • Bill Murray's advice for being a competent human being (and baseball player)

Extra resources:

> Don't Lose the Magic via Austin Kleon

> George Saunders Writing Education Timeline via The New Yorker 

> Bill Murray's speech

Notes:

  • Bryce refers to fantasy author alumni  "Tom Erikson." He is, of course, referring to Steven Erikson. 

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