Comments on: the cost of doing what you love http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Wed, 23 May 2012 20:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jamie claret http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30069 Jamie claret Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:20:26 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30069 Very interesting. Felix Dennis, self made millionaire and prolific publisher writes that before you set off on the journey to become fabulously wealthy you need to decide if that is what you REALLY want. As he puts it, if you do, you will very likely lose you partner, your children and everything else. As he puts it, wealth gives you one thig above everything else, time and choice. I suppose it's that fine balance. My concern is that I started my business to create time and wealth, but now enjoy the process of business so much that I WANT to do it all the time Very interesting. Felix Dennis, self made millionaire and prolific publisher writes that before you set off on the journey to become fabulously wealthy you need to decide if that is what you REALLY want. As he puts it, if you do, you will very likely lose you partner, your children and everything else.

As he puts it, wealth gives you one thig above everything else, time and choice.

I suppose it’s that fine balance.

My concern is that I started my business to create time and wealth, but now enjoy the process of business so much that I WANT to do it all the time

]]> By: Paul Montwill http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30068 Paul Montwill Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:06:54 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30068 It is perilous but isn't it worst to accept status quo and don't fight for what we love doing? It is perilous but isn’t it worst to accept status quo and don’t fight for what we love doing?

]]> By: Paul Montwill http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30067 Paul Montwill Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:03:56 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30067 Susan, I like the way you added value to my spelling mistake :) You are right, there is hunger (people's expectiations) and the Hunger that Hugh writes about. In the last Rocky Sly also mentions about his Hunger to fight - one of the best part in the film. Susan, I like the way you added value to my spelling mistake :) You are right, there is hunger (people’s expectiations) and the Hunger that Hugh writes about. In the last Rocky Sly also mentions about his Hunger to fight — one of the best part in the film.

]]> By: <fb:name linked="false" useyou="false" uid="646931522">Mike O'Meara</fb:name> http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30066 Mike O'Meara Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:09:16 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30066 how true... how true…

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]]> By: ControlCalorie http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30060 ControlCalorie Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:36:24 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30060 I really like your artistic style! The lines are intricate yet creative! Just keep it up! I hope to see more of your work in the next days. because, I'll be coming back to check your latest work! LOL. Keep it up! I really like your artistic style! The lines are intricate yet creative! Just keep it up! I hope to see more of your work in the next days. because, I’ll be coming back to check your latest work! LOL. Keep it up!

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]]> By: joe http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30049 joe Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:42:54 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30049 Kind of reminds me of something Jerry Seinfeld said the other day in a NYTimes interview which I bookmarked: "Ideas are a terrible obligation. Who needs something else to take care of? I have kids. I’d rather nurture them than another idea." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/arts/television/28marriage.html Also, just finished Steven Pressfield's wonderful little book, The War of Art: http://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/0446691437 Puts all this into perspective: "The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation." And that's on a good day... -jc Kind of reminds me of something Jerry Seinfeld said the other day in a NYTimes interview which I bookmarked:

“Ideas are a terrible obligation. Who needs something else to take care of? I have kids. I’d rather nurture them than another idea.“
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/arts/television/28marriage.html

Also, just finished Steven Pressfield’s wonderful little book, The War of Art:
http://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/0446691437

Puts all this into perspective:

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.”

And that’s on a good day…

–jc

]]> By: Hugh MacLeod http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30041 Hugh MacLeod Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:19:40 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30041 @Adrian, @Paul "Love is perilous." Took me DECADES to learn that the hard way. @Adrian, @Paul

“Love is perilous.” Took me DECADES to learn that the hard way.

]]> By: Hugh MacLeod http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30040 Hugh MacLeod Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:15:27 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30040 Alice, I think St Paul got it just about right: "Without Love, I am nothing." An easy concept to understand. Much harder to actually believe. Alice, I think St Paul got it just about right:

“Without Love, I am nothing.”

An easy concept to understand. Much harder to actually believe.

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]]> By: Alice Bachini-Smith http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30022 Alice Bachini-Smith Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:02:37 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30022 I can never decide if I agree with you on this one, or not. On the one hand I think doing what you love IS life, if that's the life you're supposed to lead, so it doesn't "cost you your life" (by definition. On the other hand, I think living the kind of life you're really talking about is about being on or near the edge, all the time, sometimes falling right off it and being dragged back, etc. So you can't do that and have what most people consider to be "a life" - 2.4 kids, house in the burbs, pension & membership of the country club. But is that really a life anyway? (Trick question- it is for people whose path is meant to go that way. But not for those of us who feel like square pegs in round holes when we try it.) I can never decide if I agree with you on this one, or not.

On the one hand I think doing what you love IS life, if that’s the life you’re supposed to lead, so it doesn’t “cost you your life” (by definition.

On the other hand, I think living the kind of life you’re really talking about is about being on or near the edge, all the time, sometimes falling right off it and being dragged back, etc. So you can’t do that and have what most people consider to be “a life” — 2.4 kids, house in the burbs, pension & membership of the country club.

But is that really a life anyway?

(Trick question– it is for people whose path is meant to go that way. But not for those of us who feel like square pegs in round holes when we try it.)

]]> By: ITEMS » the cost of doing what you love http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30019 ITEMS » the cost of doing what you love Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:07:08 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30019 [...] Hugh nails it yet again!  If you want success you have to work at it…and great cartoon too [...] […] Hugh nails it yet again!  If you want success you have to work at it…and great cartoon too […]

]]> By: The One-Man Band | Austin Editorial Photographer, Destry Jaimes // DFJ Blog http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30012 The One-Man Band | Austin Editorial Photographer, Destry Jaimes // DFJ Blog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:50:13 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30012 [...] too! Whatever needs to be done – I’m it, period. Hugh MacLeod sums it up best in this cartoon (you should really subscribe to his newsletter, and pick up a copy of his book “Ignore [...] […] too! Whatever needs to be done – I’m it, period. Hugh MacLeod sums it up best in this cartoon (you should really subscribe to his newsletter, and pick up a copy of his book “Ignore […]

]]> By: Susan Wenger http://gapingvoid.com/2010/03/05/the-cost/#comment-30009 Susan Wenger Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:48:51 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=11692#comment-30009 I like "WHO to feed the hunger" better. Are you feeding it your best self, or people's expectations of who you should be? If the latter, it will remain malnourished. I like “WHO to feed the hunger” better. Are you feeding it your best self, or people’s expectations of who you should be? If the latter, it will remain malnourished.

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