Chasing Dollars Instead Of Passion [2/19/09]

chasing dollars instead of chasing passion um probably the biggest takeaway I have on this lovely what is it Thursday month I'm so messed up Thursday it's what a Redeye does Thursday after giving three Keynotes in the last uh three days in Dallas San Fran and la and uh it's very obvious to me that the thing that kept getting brought up was how do I monetize how do I make money all that stuff that you always hear when you do entrepreneurial talks or business talks and in a day and AG age where I think way too many people that have entrepreneurial skills see opportunities I see opportunities every day online I'm like oo there is a huge plate in this car market or in this you know flower glasswar market chocolate Market but these are not my passions and though I might have the skills to make a buck or two or four million it is still fundamentally better because you get stretch inin I promise you to go after your passions because you have the same skill sets and when you focus on passion you'll be able to do the one thing that's going to differentiate your differentiate yourself from your competition and that's hustle that's the work that you're going to be willing to put in that the other person isn't because if you don't love chocolate but you see money in it you're going to put in your seven 10 12 hours a day but the person that might not be as talented as you that loves it more than you do he's going to pee or she's going to be putting in 22 hours a day and that's dangerous and it's a broken business so Jeff the rose is calling so if you want to win in this market the biggest thing that I see a lot of people doing is they find an AdSense word that pays well or they have a sponsor so they've already got the dollars and cents for this Niche but they aren't following their passion more on why I moved to Tumblr in the next couple days I hope you enjoyed this video the passion is the secret sauce Twitter's not the secret sauce it's a tool it's like a pair of scissors your passion that's your differentiator