This document provides an introduction to a capstone project focused on finding one's passion and talent. It discusses how passion has evolved from suffering to love and pleasure, and finding one's passion is a journey from endurance to enjoyment. Talent reflects how one is hard-wired and results in consistent patterns of behavior. The document prompts reflection on one's unique talents and how collaboration can improve upon them. It stresses that to create lasting change, an economic engine is needed for sustainability and scaling beyond personal impact alone.

1. Week 1 - Capstone

2. “The original meaning of “passion” is to suffer or
endure, as in the Passion of Christ. Its modern
meanings have evolved to include love, attraction and
pleasure. Finding our own element is also a journey
from endurance to enjoyment. It’s a vital step, too, in
moving from being one type of person to being the
other type. “
– Sir Ken Robinson

3. Passion Changes Everything
• What is your passion?
• How do you define it?
• How do you figure it out?

4. Talent reflects how you're hard-wired.
That's what sets the concept apart from that of
knowledge or skills. Talent dictates your
moment-by-moment reactions to your
environment -- there's an instinctiveness, an
immediacy implied. Talent results in consistently
recurring patterns of thought or behavior. To
deviate from those patterns requires conscious
effort, and such deviations are difficult to
sustain.
http://businessjournal.gallup.com/content/412/exactly-what-talent-anyway.aspx

5. Your Talent
• What is your talent?
• What unique knowledge or
experiences do you have that
set you apart from everyone
else?
• How can collaboration with
others improve your talent?

6. Any strategy for making lasting change in your life
or in the world needs to include an economic
engine. Period. In our lives, we want to develop
routines and habits that not only support our loved
ones, but reinforce our own resilience. In the
world, we want our organizations to not only
positively impact our communities and planet, but
also keep us in business. To make change that truly
lasts, we need to kick-off cycles that are both
virtuous and sustainable. Without an economic
engine, our efforts cannot be sustained, let alone
scaled.
http://makinglastingchange.com/2012/07/03/whats-your-economic-engine-the-key-to-making-change-last/

7. Your Economic Engine
Power Influence
Money Freedom
Stability Balance

8. The Hedgehog Concept
The fox knows many things,
but the hedgehog knows one
big thing