In class today most of the time was spent watching a video of a lecture by a man by the name of Sir Ken Robinson. Now most videos of someone just standing and talking are boring to me, especially if they're over an hour, but what this man had to say really grabbed my attention. He mainly talked about passion and discovering who you really are. Two things in particular that affected me personally and made me think about my own life and experiences with trying to find my passion were that without knowing what you're good at you don't really know who you are and that being good at something doesn't mean it's your passion if you don't also enjoy it as well. People do best in their doing the thing they love. I've found this to be very true. I'm good at many things, but only enjoy few of them. I used to be a classically trained Russian ballet dancer from age 3 until age 15. I didn't stop because I wasn't good at it; I stopped doing ballet because it wasn't my passion and I needed to put all that energy that I was putting into being a ballerina into something that I actually loved and that was when I realized I needed to discover my element and passion in order to not only love what I do, but love life as well.
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