DETalk–Greg Kyte–Finding Your Passion

Aug 15

</iframe></p> <p>Every comedian fails. Miserably! </p> <p>What makes them get back on stage to try again? Passion. </p> <p>In his <a href="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f2ed49407aa0533b9062382/5f2ed549ffe525512ed19e1a/5f2ed7d1ffe525512ed1e8d6/1596905425177/?format=original" target="_blank">DETalk</a>, <a href="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f2ed49407aa0533b9062382/5f2ed549ffe525512ed19e1a/5f2ed7d0ffe525512ed1e8c5/1596905424743/?format=original" target="_blank">Greg Kyte</a>, the G. Robert Newhart Non-Value-Added Fellow, explains how failure can be a tool to discover passion. If you fail miserably at something and then go out of your way to do it again, you have discovered your passion.</p> <p>Here are <a href="http://thriveal.com/2011/02/01/verasage-institute-summary/" target="_blank">some more videos of Greg at the conference</a>. 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