The most highly productive people in the world typically don't just focus on what they're good at. They also focus on what they have a true passion for. There's this tremendous overlap. Now there is some controversy in the world of self development. For so many years, everyone just said, Follow your passion, follow your passion, follow your passion. And the problem with that is for many people, if you don't have good business sense and your passion is being a musician, it was just easy to end up starving to death.

Never getting to the first rung, never getting out of your parents basement, and before you know it, you're 40 years old, all your friends are married with children and you feel that you're a pathetic loser. That's the problem with the advice of just follow your passion. There are some people in the world and follow their passion. And at age two, they fell in love with a violin. They were so passionate about it, they practice Just 18 hours a day they became a prodigy of virtuoso. And they went on to tremendous careers playing the violin all over the world best selling albums being rich and famous.

That does happen to people. They fell in love with something in an extraordinarily early age, your Tiger Woods playing golf at three and just that's the focus of life. But that's probably not you or you wouldn't be in this course right now. It wasn't me. It's not most people. There's now a backlash against this whole follow your passion mentality.

And many experts now say, forget about passion. Focus on what you're good at where you can help people and do that and you'll get a positive response from people you've helped and you'll develop a passion for I do think there's a lot to that. You might not when you're a teenager think you have a passion for helping people Suffering debilitating diseases who are in their last six months of life. But it may be that you end up in that field. And you give so much comfort to people in their last six months of life in their family members that you start to love it and it becomes your passion that can happen. I happen to have stumbled into my niche and it wasn't my first choice.

My first choice in life was to be a famous political pundit and talk show host talking about politics and public affairs. And I tried that and frankly, failed for about 20 years. But all the time I was doing that I was honing my skills speaking. And later on, I suddenly realized I can focus, just forget the political commentary part just on helping people speak. And that could be my main focus. And so now there was a skill, and there was a passion, and it cemented together in a way that really helped a lot of people and helping make a career out of it.

That can be the way it works for you, too. So I need you to give real thought to figuring out what is it you're good at. Ideally, you do have a passion for it. And where you're getting positive feedback from people, because when you do that, it's just so much easier to be productive. If you've hated accounting your whole life, and you're an accountant, and your whole life you've just dreamed of being a Broadway actor. It's going to be harder every single day, to get motivated to be productive in your accounting office.

So you got to figure out some shit. Maybe you start a practice that specializes in helping successful Broadway stars manage their their affairs. And their taxes and their accounting more favorably and that gets you into the showbiz world. You got to be creative, but you've got to figure out how can you create something where there is this overlap skill, competence and demand