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Posted On 09.23.08

As you know, I was away for the last week. For part of my trip I was in Reno, Nevada at the National Championship Air Races. (Picture Nascar in the sky. Truly unreal.)

Before I arrived there were 3 fatal accidents.

These people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars fixing their airplanes to make them racing machines. And then risk their lif

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Rosie Reilman
09.23.08

You are right: Passion is what keeps us going. It's what makes our lives meaningful and worthwhile. I enjoyed reading your reflections! Thanks for sharing!

Ryan Healy
09.23.08

Thanks for the post, Adam. Reading this was a great way to get my day started. I completely relate to how you felt time was just passing you by at Ernst and Young. I felt the same way about past jobs. Life's to short to just get by.

Ian
09.23.08

Amazing, I can hear your passion as I was reading this.
I can relate with letting time pass (with years of experience in that).

This is something that I have ponder for this year:
Do you want to make your memoirs worth reading? (from Radical Careering)

Holly Hoffman
09.23.08

When I was little, I wanted to be a martyr when I grew up. Seriously. Talk about a misguided Catholic upbringing.

I majored in philosophy in college because I'd been plagued with finding purpose in life (Man's Search For Meaning was one of my favorites in high school) from perhaps too young an age. Even now, I blog about trying to find my passion. That seems to be the hard part for me - lots of passion, wondering where to direct it!

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