I laughed when I read this in your post about not just following one’s passions:

“…the pay is atrocious and you find out that the tone-deaf performing Chimp in the red stripey pants is earning a buck an hour more than you.

Worse than that is the fact that the hours are ridiculously long… You can’t afford to buy your own house or send your kids to the school of you choice. You’re even starting to begrudge the dog his pedigree chum as you haven’t had real meat since the owner started topping up your pay with nuts and bananas.”

You just described every job I ever had that wasn’t my passion. The Chimp, you didn’t mention, is ten years younger than you are, too.

So I figure, why not go for it? What have I got to lose?

Thanks for your insights.

If you want to judge my attitude as a person and coach by that brief comment then knock yourself out. You think I was being sarcastic, I wasn’t. There’s not even any room for debate because I actually know what I meant (and being sarcastic never crossed my mind), you’re only guessing.

I did consider going down the road of debating the word itself, but I didn’t really disagree with what you were saying and couldn’t see the point. Not only that, but sometimes I simply haven’t got the time.

Sorry you took it the way you appeared to.

now we have:

“I know you are, but what am I?”

genius :)

I think your attitude as a coach and an individual is quite clear from this response.

loving the sarcastic use of the word “mate”.

Thank you for being so clear and instructive. I am assuming the work in your book is of a similar quality.

Perhaps I was expecting a concise or even relevent response to the concept of passion either being semantic or not.

However, your given response tells me everything I need to know.

No need to respond to this.

You have been helpful enough.