How Do You Find Your Passion and How Do You Pursue It?
Randy Komisar, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

How do I know what my passion is? Rather than thinking about THE passion, think about a portfolio of passion and match with opportunity in front of you
You will be paralyzed by trying to figure out what is My Passion? And What is the end mark that I am going to make.
Instead, decide what is important to you, what are your morals and now what am I going to do next?
“My career makes no sense at all in the windshield, it only makes sense in the rear view mirror.”

A Hero’s Journey  “you have a very special mission on this earth, a mission that will succeed beyond your wildest dreams, if you have the faith and the courage to find your entrepreneurial calling.”
The Hero’s Journey is all about you, but it is not about you at all.
Seeing struggles as adventures and setbacks as lessons.
What matters most isn’t the prize at the end, but how the hero is changed in the process.
Learn how to Learn, Learn how to make money & Learn how to live a life of meaning
Find Great Role Models and Ask great questions!
Each student chooses 10 role models: ask lessons they wished they learned earlier
3 of those role models my age – 45
3 age 45-60
At least 3 over age 60
End of life 3 Questions matter
Have I contributed something meaningful? : Secret: Never give up your search for a calling
Was I a good person? Secret: write a list of all my “I will not…”, then when you cross one, recognize it as a signal to pause and reflect; for each of the I will not, write a message in a bottle: a letter to yourself in the future.  Then label that envelope and put it in your top desk drawer, so at that moment of greatest temptation, you can hear a better voice.
In the end, Will I be worthy to hear: “Well done, my good and faithful servant”??
Who did I love and who loved me?: Choose your fellow travelers well, for it is a trip you only take once
Be world class at something!: that fits my special gifts
Ask 5 people that I know well, what I do better than anyone else in the world?
Use God given gifts to do something that brings me great joy
Satisfy a deep burning need in the world, a calling must serve others!
“Do you know what the greatest difference is between you and God?  God never believes that he is you”
Share Rewards!!!: Extraordinary people get 10 times the amount done that those that are merely good at their job and those that are merely good at their job get 10 times more done as the average person!
A Hero’s journey is not about your happiness, but it will bring you happiness
Think of someone in your life who you are truly grateful for, but have thanked. (parent, favorite aunt, coach, teacher)
Write a page letter expressing your gratitude, go and find them and read the letter out loud
Being Rich is spending less than you make so your time belongs to you!!


It takes 10,000 hours to master a skill. That’s three hours a day of practice, every day, for ten years.
Entrepreneurs become successful, one small investment at a time, in a never-ending process. Because entrepreneurial success isn’t a destination, it’s a journey. A journey taken one determined step at a time, in a way that builds lifelong treasures.

Book: “Mastery”

Mastery: the mysterious process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice.

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