Getting ‘it’ up for your job
July 31, 2008 | by brett | Permalink
I question I receive all the time is “How can I be passionate about my job?” There is no better analogy that will stick with you than what best selling author David Rensin told us during an interview:
In 1979, Playboy sent me into the adult film industry to see what was going on. I happened upon a guy porn actor and I asked him, “You gotta make it with these women in these films over and over and over again…what if you don’t like them? How are you going to get it up?”
He said, “Well, you focus on the one thing about them that you like. The one thing about them that you can be passionate about. Maybe it’s their lips. Maybe it’s something they said. Maybe it’s some other body part. And then, block the rest of it out.” That’s your method acting for porn, and I think it applies across the board.
Now think about it. We have to get it up every day in our job too. Day after day after day we report to work and have to get excited about what we are doing. And how often do we stay limp? What is preventing us from getting it up?
Oftentimes we allow all these other negative elements to creep into our job so that we stop getting excited. We lose sight of what we really enjoy when we focus on the negative. But by focusing on that one thing, that one thing that gets it up for us, that positive energy transcends into all aspects of our job. Then we can leave work feeling passionate about what we do.
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