CHAPTER 5

Discovering Your Passions, Your Skills, and Yourself

Steps 1 and 2

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

—Mark Twain

Key Points

• Building your dream career requires continual introspection, focus, and coordination with reality.

• Passion is critical, not just for living your dream but also for providing the motivation required to master a field.

• Passion accounts for little unless you have the skills and the persistence required for mastery.

• Search continually for new experiences from which new interests and passions may arise.

• Discovering your passion, interest, and skills provides a perfect opportunity to begin building your professional network.

• Don’t ...

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