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When someone is passionate about something, this comes across. Yet we rarely spend time thinking about what we are passionate about and why. Others opinions and advice is useful but it doesn't mean we have to listen to everything that others tell us. If you are passionate about what you do you will enjoy the area that you choose to work in and as a result potentially be more successful.

Passion (defn)

  1. Powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.

  2. Ardent love.
    Strong sexual desire; lust.
    The object of such love or desire.

  3. Boundless enthusiasm: His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
    The object of such enthusiasm: Soccer is her passion.

  4. An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger: He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.

  5. Passion:
    The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
    A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.

  6. Archaic. Martyrdom.

  7. Archaic. Passivity.

Work through Activity 2 in your workbook. Your answers to the questions will help you explore where your true passions lie.

Link these back to your ideas in Activity 1. Are there any links?