Your Identity IS Your Passion
The Sixth Achievement Factor
Kevin Hogan
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Natural Passion...for Better and Worse
Animals who see each other as different prey on each other (or run from being prey). And of course, when animals are more similar, they tend to group up, form communities, cities and then point the finger at everyone outside the community and say, "bad guy." And that is a big part of your identity.
The location where you live. You become passionate (emotion filled) about it because it is part of your identity. The people around you that you don't like that much....you like more when there is a greater threat because of proximity and similarity...part of your identity...your beliefs religious, political, societal....all part of your identity. You are passionate about all of these things.
Important: This doesn't mean you are passionate about your religion....you are only passionate about "your religion" if it is woven into your identity.
And all of these things...you became passionate about for reasons which you did not likely choose.
Four Factors of Identity
You were born into a body that is programmed to survive and reproduce.
You were born into an environment. Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, Singapore, somewhere that had a group identity.
You were born into a family, community, city, religion, political orientation, all of which have identities that became part of you.
You made choices and make choices about your life that give you the only identity you can control.
You can't be passionate about anything "new" if you try to find yourself. Fresh passion only comes from creation and action.
"Finding yourself" isn't finding yourself, it needs to be "recreating yourself"...which is why no one finds themselves...because there is nothing else that is there if you don't make decisions to put "it" in there. And it's THESE things that you will become passionate about.
People feel "lost" because they believe they will find something hidden within themselves. Spirituality aside, the fact is that they must CREATE IT within themselves in order to "find it".
How does passion emerge? Continue to the next page...
