Golden Oldies: Passion Unchecked
by Miki SaxonIt’s amazing to me, but looking back over more than a decade of writing I find posts that still impress, with information that is as useful now as when it was written.
Golden Oldies are a collection of what I consider some of the best posts during that time.
Passion. Everybdy talks about it; builds companies around it; it infuses cultures — personal, company, country. But, like most powerful emotions, it’s a two-edged sword.
Read other Golden Oldies here.
Last spring I wrote that passion sustains me and keeps my writing, but that even passion needs a day off now and then.
But what happens with there is no day off; when passion is continually cranked up?
When passion runs wild it can lose touch with reality.
You can see the aftermath of unchecked passion in companies whose positional leaders were so focused on their vision that they allowed nothing to stand in the way and the political leaders who are more focused on spreading their ideology than fixing their country.
Passion unchecked yields freely to fanaticism.
Fanaticism obliterates humanity.
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