rotaract 2012: to find happiness, forget about passion

11
To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

Upload: rotary-international

Post on 20-Jun-2015

471 views

Category:

Technology


0 download

DESCRIPTION

Keynote presentation by Rotarian W. Oliver Segovia at the 2012 Rotaract Preconvention Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

To Find Happiness, Forget About

Passion

Page 2: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion
Page 3: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

What is so wrong with followingyour passion?

Page 4: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

Putting problems at the center of our decisionmaking changes everything

Page 5: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

The good thing is that there are a lot of bigproblems to go by. Climate change,sustainability, poverty, education, healthcare,technology, and urbanization in emerging markets.

We could go on all day.

Page 6: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

Develop situational awareness

Page 7: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion
Page 8: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

Look into problems that affect youin a very personal way

Page 9: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

Connect with people working onbig problems.

Page 10: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

Take time off and travel

Page 11: Rotaract 2012: To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion

Happiness comes from the intersection of whatyou love, what you’re good at, and what the world needs.

We’ve been told time and again to keep finding the first. Our schools helped developed the second.

It’s time we put more thought on the third.