Why Doing What You Love Keeps You Poor

Dan Lok Show

Dan Lok

Careers, Management, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Whether you're a budding entrepreneur, someone considering a career change, or simply questioning the career advice you've always heard, this episode will challenge your perceptions and perhaps even change the way you think about work, passion, and wealth.

Tune in to understand the nuanced relationship between passion, profession, and profit, and learn how to navigate this complex landscape to achieve both personal satisfaction and financial freedom.

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0:00.0	What we don't want to do is to force your passion and turn into a business, right?
0:20.0	Because business exists not for us, but for the marketplace.
0:26.6	In the ideal world, right, so in the ideal ideal world, right?
0:32.6	You have your passion, which is good, but just because we're passionate about something, it
0:40.9	doesn't mean it should be a business, right? I have a friend of mine, he's a speaker,
0:45.7	he's a public speaker, right? They travel and speak. And he said, you know, Dan, you know what
0:50.5	I love to do? I've just loved to stay home and watch sports game with my kids.
0:56.7	But until I can find someone that would pay me to do that,
0:59.1	I have to speak, right?
1:01.6	So passion is good.
1:04.4	I think it's also if you can find your purpose,
1:08.6	like your calling, what you're good at, that's also good. Everyone has different purpose, like different calling what you're good at that's also good
1:12.0	everyone has different purpose
1:14.0	like different calling
1:14.9	I didn't know I could teach
1:17.8	until I teach
1:19.3	I never thought
1:21.1	I could do it right
1:22.4	I have a neck for it
1:23.7	I love to teach
1:24.9	and then profit so I think this is that sweet spot.
1:32.9	Entrepreneurs, what do we do? We solve people's problems at a profit. It's about other people.
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