Measure passion not progress
00:00:00.000 | Advice number three is to measure passion, not progress.
00:00:05.000 | So most of us get an average of about 27,000 days of life.
00:00:11.480 | I think a good metric by which you should live
00:00:16.200 | is to maximize the number of those days
00:00:19.000 | that are filled with a passionate pursuit of something,
00:00:22.600 | not by how much you've progressed
00:00:24.960 | towards a particular goal.
00:00:27.200 | Because goals are grounded in your comparison
00:00:29.220 | to other human beings,
00:00:30.820 | to something that's already been done before.
00:00:34.080 | Passionate pursuit of something
00:00:37.500 | is the way you achieve something totally new.
00:00:39.920 | And a quick warning about passion.
00:00:46.560 | Again, I'm a little bit of Russian,
00:00:48.920 | so maybe I romanticize this whole
00:00:50.420 | suffering and passion thing.
00:00:51.880 | But the people who love you,
00:00:56.160 | the people who care for you,
00:00:59.120 | like I mentioned, your friends, your family,
00:01:01.880 | should not be trusted.
00:01:04.400 | Accept their love, but not their advice.
00:01:10.360 | Parents and significant others
00:01:13.140 | will tell you to find a secure job
00:01:15.080 | because passion looks dangerous.
00:01:17.960 | It looks insecure.
00:01:20.880 | Advisors, colleagues will tell you to be pragmatic
00:01:23.760 | because passion looks like a distraction
00:01:26.280 | from the main effort that you should be focusing on.
00:01:29.620 | And society will tell you to find balance,
00:01:34.440 | work-life balance in your life
00:01:36.840 | because passion looks unhealthy.