I have been a long-time believer in following the passion and doing what I really like to do. Even though it has stayed true up until now, the perspective with which I see what passion is, have changed a bit. For a long time, I thought passion is something that is fixated to one or two particular field of interest and believed that it would stay that way for the rest of the life. But, it looks like passion can be cultivated as you go in any field or subject matter of interest if there is enough inner motivation and curiosity to learn a new thing.
I still bet that learning a skill is done in the best possible manner only if you have a genuine passion towards it. But, I am just saying that, doing something passionately is in itself a skill, which if learnt, will help us a long way in learning anything that we want, in a manner, as if we are born for it.
My wife usually says that kids are naturally inclined towards what they are familiar with rather than something they do not know. If they dance at home, then there are high chances that when a dance program is conducted in the school, then they would naturally tend to opt for it. Applying the same logic to sports, we tend to enjoy the sports that we watch when we know the rules of the game. Let's say we don't know the rules for a minute, is there any reason to get excited about whatever is happening in the game?? And how do we know the rules of the game? Because it became familiar to us around a significant amount of time period and we naturally started enjoying the game. Be it sports or music or constitutional law, it is only boring and uninterested on the outset and once we start learning the foundations, then things start to change when we start appreciating the nuances of it.
"Passion can be farmed in various fields of our interests when it suits our purpose and answers the fundamental Why's of why it should be known to us".
Personally, I started drawing in my school days, meddled with Photoshop in college, professionally learnt and practiced photography, now into product design, passionate and curious about product management, front-end development and acupuncture life sciences as of now.
I should say that there is also a downside to it, where you might be juggling between too many things, too often. They call it the shiny object syndrome wherein we are distracted to each new thing that we come across. But I also believe that the human brain is capable of remarkable things, and I don't want to restrict myself to a narrower vision. At the end of the day, it is the "me" who is having different identities at different point in time, and definitely excited for what is there to come.
"Who knows, what the tide could bring" - Tom Hanks, Cast Away.
I still bet that learning a skill is done in the best possible manner only if you have a genuine passion towards it. But, I am just saying that, doing something passionately is in itself a skill, which if learnt, will help us a long way in learning anything that we want, in a manner, as if we are born for it.
My wife usually says that kids are naturally inclined towards what they are familiar with rather than something they do not know. If they dance at home, then there are high chances that when a dance program is conducted in the school, then they would naturally tend to opt for it. Applying the same logic to sports, we tend to enjoy the sports that we watch when we know the rules of the game. Let's say we don't know the rules for a minute, is there any reason to get excited about whatever is happening in the game?? And how do we know the rules of the game? Because it became familiar to us around a significant amount of time period and we naturally started enjoying the game. Be it sports or music or constitutional law, it is only boring and uninterested on the outset and once we start learning the foundations, then things start to change when we start appreciating the nuances of it.
"Passion can be farmed in various fields of our interests when it suits our purpose and answers the fundamental Why's of why it should be known to us".
Personally, I started drawing in my school days, meddled with Photoshop in college, professionally learnt and practiced photography, now into product design, passionate and curious about product management, front-end development and acupuncture life sciences as of now.
I should say that there is also a downside to it, where you might be juggling between too many things, too often. They call it the shiny object syndrome wherein we are distracted to each new thing that we come across. But I also believe that the human brain is capable of remarkable things, and I don't want to restrict myself to a narrower vision. At the end of the day, it is the "me" who is having different identities at different point in time, and definitely excited for what is there to come.
"Who knows, what the tide could bring" - Tom Hanks, Cast Away.