Comments on: Passion FTW! Part deux, WiredWednesday Edition http://peterflaschner.com/passion-ftw-part-deux-wiredwednesday-edition/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:02:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Saul Colt http://peterflaschner.com/passion-ftw-part-deux-wiredwednesday-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-1338 Saul Colt Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:01:23 +0000 http://peterflaschner.com/?p=613#comment-1338 [...] Passion FTW! Part deux, WiredWednesday Edition Peter Flaschner - PeopleRank: 0 - April 2, 2009 ...Saul Colt and David Crow. This presentation is a bit different from the previous version. It’s been tweaked to appeal to a broader audience, and generally refined. I think it reads a bit better, and makes more sense as a stand alone piece. Passion FTW! View... + vote [...] [...] Passion FTW! Part deux, WiredWednesday Edition Peter Flaschner – PeopleRank: 0 – April 2, 2009 …Saul Colt and David Crow. This presentation is a bit different from the previous version. It’s been tweaked to appeal to a broader audience, and generally refined. I think it reads a bit better, and makes more sense as a stand alone piece. Passion FTW! View… + vote [...]

]]> By: Jesse C. http://peterflaschner.com/passion-ftw-part-deux-wiredwednesday-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-1337 Jesse C. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:45:08 +0000 http://peterflaschner.com/?p=613#comment-1337 As my twitter-time increases, I seem to spend less time visiting my feed-reader—which is why I'm so late to notice this wonderful presentation. So, at risk of losing yet more time this morning getting the incredibly important work of my own done, I want to make a quick comment about how—even though I breezed through it rather quickly—I was really blown away by this. I remember when I was a young actor trying to appear as pretentious as possible (there's two layers of deceit there, by the way), I spent a good deal of time conspicuously reading Hemingway. In <em>The Sun Also Rises</em> I recall him using the term "aficion", loosely translated from "passion". I used to scrawl it on my make-up mirror, hoping people would ask what it meant. It reminded me that I had left university to pursue something I was passionate about, and in spite of my dilettantism, I continue to change lanes when necessary to follow similar urges. Everytime I pursued my passions, the outcome was always challenging, beautiful and rewarding. It made <em>my</em> world a better place. So to see you putting passion into this context, Peter, is really a gas. It has such an important place in our lives, and yet it has been lost by so many. Reigniting it throughout the population would only serve to make our world a better place. Forgive me for oversimplifying, but your message really hits home. Passion. Great to see it back out there. :) As my twitter-time increases, I seem to spend less time visiting my feed-reader—which is why I’m so late to notice this wonderful presentation. So, at risk of losing yet more time this morning getting the incredibly important work of my own done, I want to make a quick comment about how—even though I breezed through it rather quickly—I was really blown away by this.

I remember when I was a young actor trying to appear as pretentious as possible (there’s two layers of deceit there, by the way), I spent a good deal of time conspicuously reading Hemingway. In The Sun Also Rises I recall him using the term “aficion”, loosely translated from “passion”. I used to scrawl it on my make-up mirror, hoping people would ask what it meant. It reminded me that I had left university to pursue something I was passionate about, and in spite of my dilettantism, I continue to change lanes when necessary to follow similar urges. Everytime I pursued my passions, the outcome was always challenging, beautiful and rewarding. It made my world a better place.

So to see you putting passion into this context, Peter, is really a gas. It has such an important place in our lives, and yet it has been lost by so many. Reigniting it throughout the population would only serve to make our world a better place.

Forgive me for oversimplifying, but your message really hits home. Passion. Great to see it back out there. :)

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