Book 6: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

This is late. I am going to blame it on Thanksgiving travels. I did finish the book on Sunday but as usual I am late on posting. This blogging has been been more of a challenge than the book reading but it is keeping me accountable.

So what did I learn?

I don't necessarily think there was one thing that I learned but instead it encouraged a philosophy I have come to believe. The idea that we all don't fit into the cookie cutter the education system has developed. Sometimes people aren't sugar cookies, they are chocolate chip or they aren't even cookies at all. Bad metaphor I know, but hopefully you get my drift. I think this cartoon really exemplifies what I am trying to say.

The Element has challenged me to find my passion. Michelangelo once said, "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." I want to find my passion and take it as far as I can.

Next week is book 7. The books are all starting to meld together in my learning process but I am growing and learning so much. This week is Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct by Michael E. McCullough. I think this one is going to be interesting.