I can teach you technique but I cannot teach you passion….

I was watching a movie on TV sometime ago [forgot the movie, kekeke] and there was a line ‘I can teach you technique but I cannot teach you passion’.

It was a teacher / trainer who was supposed to transform someone in a short period of time.

Last night, i was listening to a Gen Y person being profiled on TV. At 29 she is earning 6-figure salary per month and she said she wants to earn millions. She also said she worked 500x harder than her peers. She plans to retire with the one job.

She is successful because she is passionate about her job. The money came as a consequence to her passion at work. Wherever she goes, whatever job she does, her passion is what drives her success.

In my last year of encounters with folks who wants to enter the Learning Design field, as I groom them in the apprentice programme, I realise that many are living a mere illusion. Why so?

There is no success if there is no spirit of excellence. Spirit of excellence and talents must pervade all our outputs. Mere words and charisma only leave a vacuum after a while. 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration we have been told. Most Gen Y poo poo this saying. But those who are willing to sweat for their passion, will rise up above the majority.

Without a doubt, a person who is unwilling to put in the hours is not passionate about the work no matter how he or she convinces  with words. When a thousand of excuses are given, and if money is the only driver, such a person will not find success.

So it is when interviews are conducted, people do say what they want to say. But as the saying goes ‘when the rubber meets the road’ or ‘the proof is in the pudding’, the truth / reality tells a more accurate story. If the gap is big, the illusion in the candidate is large too.