everything right now we have overvalued speed. Speed may look good however passion is better exhibited by stamina. The ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort is the stuff of champions. High achievers understand that success takes time and effort and is at times physically and emotionally taxing. In all areas of life, we get knocked down repeatedly and it can be easy to just give up. Passion driven people, high achievers, learn how to bounce back. They develop the stamina necessary to go the distance.
INSPIRATION
According to the Oxford Dictionary inspiration is defined as: “The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative”. Notice it says inspiration is a process and not something you are just overcome with. When you have a passion about something, that allows the process of inspiration to happen. Inspiration is more than a feeling, it invokes action. This is what separates the high achievers from everyone else. They understand that passion is more than just having a fuzzy feeling, and just like inspiration, action is a necessity. High achievers understand feelings come and go and when passion is the driver they cannot sit and wait for inspiration to fall in their laps, they take action to create it.
OBSESSIVE optimism
Much like positivity, some people see optimism as naive. I know it does not help that I added the word obsessive in front of it. In a world filled with pessimism, people with an optimistic viewpoint are often looked at skeptically. However, just as mentioned in the section