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The Intersection of Your Skills, Passion, and Sense of Abundance

29 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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In this short reflective talk, the speaker defines a "vocation" as the intersection of three elements: one's skills (what you are good at), one's passion (what you love), and sources of abundance (what can provide financial or material support). When these three align, life feels wonderful and fulfilling. The speaker illustrates the concept with a personal story: after enrolling in a furniture‑making course, they built a coffee table that still sits in their living room. This hands‑on project sparked a reawakening of their creative expression and underscored the importance of pursuing work that blends skill, passion, and abundance.

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My definition of a vocation. A vocation is the intersection of your, your skills, you know, what you're good at, what you're passionate about, and what you can find abundance from. And, you know, so when we can find that in our lives, no matter what it is, then, then, then life becomes wonderful and completely fulfilling. Anyway, so after I started taking that course on furniture making, I built my first piece, which I still have in my living room today, which is a awesome coffee table that, that I still use. And so that was kind of the start of my reawakening and reconnecting with creative expression and the importance of it.