Purpose and Passion
The meaning of life and everything. On finding your purpose and passion, and the metaphysical idea that there might not be any purpose to anything.
Your passion and purpose isn't money or even wealth itself. Those things are nice, for sure, but it's not what you love. To succeed in business or anything, you must do the hard work, you must go the extra mile. It might take time, and you might be forced to work and work and work, but if you love what you do then it may not feel as work. It may feel as play. If you're not in love with what you do, chances are you won't be great at it either.
Purpose makes life worth living. Or something like that.
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.” ― Steve Jobs
The Thing That is Purpose
You must find the things in life that makes you happy, or satisfied, or just the things that makes life truly worth living. Find the things in life that you want to do. And even if you don't succeed, this is what you want to be doing. Find the thing that will give purpose to your life. Then build your life around that thing.
Transferred to business, the effort must be self-rewarding irrespective of outcome, but financially, make sure it's a thing with high financial reward potential. Additionally, make sure it's not a make-it-or-bust thing, don't bet everything on success, but instead make it so that if you fail, you can rise again tomorrow and continue as if nothing bad happened, and it was just one more valuable experience to add to your life.
The Purpose of Work
The purpose of work can be to learn. If you work as an employee, and you do it just for the money, and you're not in it for the learning, you might not get where you want. Or it'll be very slow. Too slow. If you must work for others, make sure it's not just for the money. Work to learn and aquire new skills, to expand your network, to gain reputation. Don't work just for money.
If you're working on your own things, your own business, that's something else. But make sure you're doing it with a purpose. If you're going to start a business, it might as well be your dream business. Find something you enjoy doing, build something that makes sense to you, realize ideas that you feel are important. Don't do anything just for the money. Because, if you fail, you gain nothing, and if you win, all you've got is money. And money isn't wealth.
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
