From the course: Work on Purpose
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Why purpose trumps passion
(upbeat music) - [Speaker One] What's more important? Purpose or passion? Purpose and passion, sometimes, get used interchangeably, but it's actually really important to differentiate between the two. - [Speaker Two] At work, passion usually means being really excited about something or having a lot of enthusiasm. - [Speaker One] But purpose, on the other hand, is the belief that the work counts for something, that it has meaning. - [Speaker Two] So, there was some interesting research documented by Chip and Dan Heath on this. And they articulate the difference, measuring both purpose and passion individually. - [Speaker One] And they found that people who had neither purpose nor passion, they didn't think things were exciting, and they also didn't find any meaning in it. Not surprisingly, those were the lowest performers. But the people with both purpose and passion, the work had meaning and they were excited, those…
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