Arvid Kahl
speaker
22,801 appearances
96 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 3 Apr
Arvid Kahl’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Should I do the thing that I always like doing and try to turn that into a business?
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Or should I look at what people around me in my, I don't know, hobby or field of expertise are building and then build something like that or something for them?
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What does it mean?
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And for most people, looking at it from their own personal perspective.
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Follow your passion becomes, well, I have this certain thing that I like to do, a certain field or industry, be it professional or hobby, doesn't really matter.
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Something that I'm interested in, and I want to do that for a living.
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I love baking, so I probably should open a bakery.
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Or I love doing yard work for some reason.
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So I probably should become a professional gardener.
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That is what most people think about when they look at follow your passion.
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And in the field of digital businesses, it often turns into something like, well, should I maybe just become a content creator in that particular field or turn this into a software as a service solution for people who work in that field as well?
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And the more you think about this nuanced application of follow your passion, or the more you want it to be nuanced, the more it actually becomes useful advice.
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But if you only believe that it means do what you love and try to make money, that's where things get problematic.
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Here's the thing.
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Most of the time we do things we love because they produce value that's not easily quantified.
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When we read a book or when I read a book, I don't want to turn this into a monetizable experience, right?
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It's something internal.
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I read this book, I enjoy the story, and for many years I'll keep thinking about it, I keep referencing it, I integrate it into maybe the stories that I tell myself or the stories that I tell others when I recommend books or when I recommend stories.
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But I can't say like I receive $10 worth of joy from this, or even for a particular
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Particularly good book, like I received a hundred or thousands of dollars of joy.
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