I'm working through the '27 Questions to Find Your Passion' worksheet from Live Your Legend, a fabulous site devoted to encouraging people to discover their passions and pursue them. Join me!
Question #6: When was the last time you massively over-delivered on something? What was it and why did you work so damn hard?
For work, I think this would have to be a recent powerpoint presentation I had the opportunity to put together for a long-term project. I spent days obsessing over very specific animations and tweaking everything to deliver the information in the best possible way. I got completely absorbed in the design of the thing, and even spent a lot of my own time at home and on my commute working on it, and I was inordinately proud of it.
Why did I work so damn hard? Because it was fun. Because for whatever reason I intensely enjoy reformatting data into digestible forms and designing visuals to succinctly convey information.
The last personal project that I remember becoming completely obsessed with was when I was rewriting and reformatting my résumé. I'm a huge fan of LaTeX, an incredibly powerful typesetting system, and wrote my own style file for my household's résumés. Again, I spent tons of time at home and on commutes working on it and tweaking all the fiddly bits. I'd spend hours researching online about effective résumé presentation guidelines and principles. I'd look up and hours would have passed while I was absorbed in the project.
Why did I put so much work into that? It wasn't really because of how important a résumé is in one's professional life, though that's a perk. Fundamentally, it was because of how passionate I felt about presenting the requisite information in the most effective way possible.
Hmm. There seems to be a trend here.
Previous questions: part 1:happiness , part 2: invincibility, part 3: gratitude, part 4: skills, part 5: heroes.
For work, I think this would have to be a recent powerpoint presentation I had the opportunity to put together for a long-term project. I spent days obsessing over very specific animations and tweaking everything to deliver the information in the best possible way. I got completely absorbed in the design of the thing, and even spent a lot of my own time at home and on my commute working on it, and I was inordinately proud of it.
Why did I work so damn hard? Because it was fun. Because for whatever reason I intensely enjoy reformatting data into digestible forms and designing visuals to succinctly convey information.
The last personal project that I remember becoming completely obsessed with was when I was rewriting and reformatting my résumé. I'm a huge fan of LaTeX, an incredibly powerful typesetting system, and wrote my own style file for my household's résumés. Again, I spent tons of time at home and on commutes working on it and tweaking all the fiddly bits. I'd spend hours researching online about effective résumé presentation guidelines and principles. I'd look up and hours would have passed while I was absorbed in the project.
Why did I put so much work into that? It wasn't really because of how important a résumé is in one's professional life, though that's a perk. Fundamentally, it was because of how passionate I felt about presenting the requisite information in the most effective way possible.
Hmm. There seems to be a trend here.
Previous questions: part 1:happiness , part 2: invincibility, part 3: gratitude, part 4: skills, part 5: heroes.
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