happy place Archives | Jedidiah https://jedidiah.org.za/tag/happy-place/ Raising a Standard of Excellence & Significance Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:59:24 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 Passion – Being in the Zone https://jedidiah.org.za/excellence/passion-being-in-the-zone/ https://jedidiah.org.za/excellence/passion-being-in-the-zone/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:58:09 +0000 http://jedidiah.org.za/?p=1138 Love, Work, “Often people are very good at things they do not really care for,” says Sir Ken Robinson, a professor in Education, in his Ted Talk Bring on the Learning Revolution. But the things that will set you apart are the things that you are naturally good at combined with passion.

Robinson’s book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything has been translated into 23 languages and has sold over a million copies worldwide.

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“It’s about passion”, says Robinson, “and what excites our spirit and our energy. ... continue reading

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But I’ll rest my case with the following quotes;

One does not stop buying books just because there is no more shelf space

and I’d like to see myself as extraordinary because Robin Sharma said

Ordinary people have big TV’s, but extraordinary people have big libraries.

A recent purchase from a second hand bookstore was a book titled ... continue reading

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