Interested Or Committed? Time For A Reality Check
With so many interesting things available at the click of a button, we’ve all become multi-passionates, but we won’t get anywhere fast that way. Here’s the hard truth you don’t want to hear.
I love that I am interested in many things. For my generation (Gen X) and the previous ones, general knowledge was highly valued. It wasn’t easily accessible so you built a library with books on various topics and visited interesting places and exhibitions.
The arrival of the Internet provided an endless source of information and pictures that blew our minds. I find it laughable that there is so much written about capping Internet time for children and teenagers when my generation spends so much time on their iPads.
Many of us became multi-passionates, genuinely interested in so many things. We want to write, paint, sew, stretch, meditate, and be mindful and spiritual. We’ve got many courses sitting in our inbox and books on our shelves to prove it.
But here is the problem: although we are truly interested, we often fail to commit.
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”
