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Kenyan (East Africa)Transcript
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Yeah, While taking the grid score, you might have noticed that none off the passion questions asked how intensely you are committed to your goals. This may seem odd, because the word passion is often used to describe intense emotions followed off people. Passion is synonymous with infatuation or obsession. But in interviews about what it takes to succeed, high achievers often talk about commitment off a different kind rather than intensity. What comes up again and again in the remarks is the idea off consistency off a time, for instance, I've had off chiefs who grew up watching Julia Child on television and remain fascinated with cooking into adulthood. I've had off investors whose curiosity about the financial market Issa skin in their fourth or fifth decade off investment, as it was on their very first day off trading. A lot of mathematicians who work on a problem the same problem day and night for years without once deciding oh toe help. This theory, um, are moving on to something else on. That's why the questions that generate your passion school ask for you to reap flecked on how steadily you hold the girls off a time s passion the right word to describe the stink, enduring devotion. Some might say I should find a better word. Maybe so, but the important thing is the idea itself. Enthusiasm is common. Endurance hysteria. Consider, for example, Jeff Region Gentlemen. Yeah. For about a decade, Jeff had been the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times. In 2012, he won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of conflict in East Africa. Is a bit off a celebrity in the world off international journalism, widely admired for his courage to pursue stories that put his life at risk and also for his willingness to unflinchingly report events that are unthinkably horrific. I met Jeff when you were in our early twenties. At the time, both of us will pursue master's degrees at Oxford University. For me, this was before McKinsey before teaching and before becoming a psychologist for Jeff. This was before he treated his first new stories. I think it's fair to see the back then neither of us knew quite what you wanted to be when you grew up, and we were both trying desperately to figure it out