Road Trip, anyone?
Road Trip Nation is a book I picked up at the library with quite sage advice. It's created by and for college kids but is relevant to all who are seeking to "walk their own path" and shed "the noise" of what our culture says we should do with our lives. The book is a collection of the stories of successful people who got to success via a windy road.
"The people who are really close to you are the ones who will not judge you. People who worry about what others think or say about them hesitate. They may hesitate to make a mistake; worse, they might hesitate to achieve greatness. Just take a chance. There is no excuse for someone is his early or mid-twenties not to pursue a dream. I think it's about giving yourself over to sojmething blindly. GIve yourself in a way that you're willing to jump over the edge of a cliff while not sure what's on the other side. That's how pure your dream has to be. If it doesn't work, if you don't like it, who cares. You'll have done something that others don't have the courage or the wherewithal to try." Chef Charlie Trotter - of Charlie Trotter's Restaurant where a dinner is $300 for one person. He started out working in a kitchen for $3 an hour.
"The best people care about only one thing and that's having an impact. The really great people love to play in the hot zones....The only advice I could give young people is this: 'Poof, your fifty.' So, what have you done? Did you have fun? Did you have adventures? Did you do stuff that you really loved? Did you lead a brave life?" Geoffrey Frost - who skipped Yale to work in advertising and was vice-president of a company at age twenty-six.
"What's my advice to people entering the workforce? Have a realistic perspective on how hard it is. You may not get the exact job you want as fast as you want, or get paid as much as you deserve, but things have a way of working out....Being passionate about what you do doesn't mean you'll be happy all the time. It will be tough. You will face setbacks, but if you keep pursuing your passion seriously, things will happen that you can't predict." RIck Allen, president and CEO of National Geographic Ventures, who started out his career as a lawyer, hated it and made a jump to business. He also was instrumental in setting up Americorps.
Rick Allen touches on something that was stated somehow in Every story in the book. "Things work out." You could say that it's just good luck. But maybe not. Perhaps the biggest barrier to anything is what we believe about what's possible. When we believe something's possible, it is.
I'm in the process of figuring out what I want to be possible for me.
"The people who are really close to you are the ones who will not judge you. People who worry about what others think or say about them hesitate. They may hesitate to make a mistake; worse, they might hesitate to achieve greatness. Just take a chance. There is no excuse for someone is his early or mid-twenties not to pursue a dream. I think it's about giving yourself over to sojmething blindly. GIve yourself in a way that you're willing to jump over the edge of a cliff while not sure what's on the other side. That's how pure your dream has to be. If it doesn't work, if you don't like it, who cares. You'll have done something that others don't have the courage or the wherewithal to try." Chef Charlie Trotter - of Charlie Trotter's Restaurant where a dinner is $300 for one person. He started out working in a kitchen for $3 an hour.
"The best people care about only one thing and that's having an impact. The really great people love to play in the hot zones....The only advice I could give young people is this: 'Poof, your fifty.' So, what have you done? Did you have fun? Did you have adventures? Did you do stuff that you really loved? Did you lead a brave life?" Geoffrey Frost - who skipped Yale to work in advertising and was vice-president of a company at age twenty-six.
"What's my advice to people entering the workforce? Have a realistic perspective on how hard it is. You may not get the exact job you want as fast as you want, or get paid as much as you deserve, but things have a way of working out....Being passionate about what you do doesn't mean you'll be happy all the time. It will be tough. You will face setbacks, but if you keep pursuing your passion seriously, things will happen that you can't predict." RIck Allen, president and CEO of National Geographic Ventures, who started out his career as a lawyer, hated it and made a jump to business. He also was instrumental in setting up Americorps.
Rick Allen touches on something that was stated somehow in Every story in the book. "Things work out." You could say that it's just good luck. But maybe not. Perhaps the biggest barrier to anything is what we believe about what's possible. When we believe something's possible, it is.
I'm in the process of figuring out what I want to be possible for me.
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