A speaker breaks down the difference between excitement and passion, arguing that an owner's mentality is what creates lasting impact. Excitement fades fast. Passion, paired with ownership of your work and outcomes, is what sticks.
Excitement to me is a quick spark, but passion is a long lasting fire that keeps like going long after that little spark fades. And by the way, the spark can be the thing that ends up being the passion, but they have to be understood and defined as different. And here's the thing, it's not about having passion handed to you as a human. Like, sometimes I think we get a little bit with the company professional world of like core values and mission and vision and oh well, because of that, I should just ask an employee, like, what am I passionate about, boss? Passion shows up when you own your work, when you own your choices, and when you own your outcomes. And I love to talk about this, the thing that I call the owner's mentality. You don't have to be an owner to have owner's mentality. I want you to think about it like an owner doesn't wait for someone else to tell them what's next. They don't need permission to care. Passion fuels that drive, that sense of accountability. We as individual humans can unlock that for ourself. And so when you approach, you know, your role with an owner's mentality, when you approach your life with an owner's mentality, you're not just doing a job, you're not just doing a thing. You fully understand that you're doing that job or that thing, professional or personal, to leave a mark or like I always say, to create the ripple.
