Elizabeth Gilbert is a successful author. She is an author that embraces being vulnerable and as such people revel in her authenticity. When people attain success others look to them for advice. Elizabeth says that one day she spoke from the stage to a large group. She spoke of feeling fulfilled when you find your passion. One day not long after that particular presentation had ended she received her usual mail, much of it fan mail. She opened one letter and as she read she was sent into shock. One of the women in her audience on the day of that recent presentation wrote. "thanks for making me feel like crap for never ever in my life finding my PASSION"(I paraphrase). Elizabeth Gilbert was forced to think long and hard about how her words had hurt that women so deeply. She began to think about how many times she had delivered that very same presentation and said the very same words and she wondered who else felt LESS because of them. Thus her pivot toward the paradigm of people that begin life focused on one task like a jackhammer know their purpose seemingly from birth vs. those that are on a life journey with a path that resembles that of a hummingbird or bumble bee.

1. Elizabeth Gilbert on "PURPOSE &
PASSION"
Arthur Jones

2. 1st TRUTH
• Purpose & Passion
• Identify your passion
• Your guiding light
• Feel like a soul
revolution is going on
inside your being!
• If you can dream it you
can be it
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3. 2nd Truth
• Passion, I don't have
one
• I don’t have one
thing that drives me
from inside
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4. Life can be like a "The Fun House Journey"
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5. In a culture that fetishizes PASSION, not knowing what
yours is can make you the OTHER.
• There is a lot of pressure
around that work
• Remember the most
passionate love
relationship (now think
how you felt during then
after it was over) Tough
Right!
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6. Curiosity
• More accessible
• Not Demanding
• It's like a scavenger hunt
• Find the clues
– Move your head a 1/4 inch
and investigate the clues
– It might just lead you
somewhere
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7. Two types of people
• Jackhammers
– Focused
• Hummingbirds
– Try many flowers and trees
– Cross pollinating the world
• Final TRUTH for some of us
– Your curiosity just might lead
you toward your passion
– Hafez
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8. Jackhammers
• Focused
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9. Hummingbirds
• Try many flowers and
trees
• Cross pollinating the
world
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10. Final TRUTH for some of us
• Your curiosity just
might lead you
toward your passion
• Hafez
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11. Hafez
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