I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.
Interpretation
Chase your passions fervently during your youth and embrace big dreams and risks.
This quote emphasizes the importance of using one's youth to boldly pursue passions and dreams, rather than approaching them hesitantly. It encourages individuals to dream big and take significant risks, advocating for a life lived fully and without fear of failure, as youth is the ideal time to explore one's ambitions intensely.
In practice
During a graduation speech to inspire young graduates to follow their dreams.
Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north — and it’s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.
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