Keep Calm, Quit Your Passion

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2021 has arrived with the ‘new year, new me’ mantra everywhere. Millions of souls are inspired with resolutions and following advice like ‘find your passion.’

Unfortunately, it’s kind of shitty advice. In short, telling people to find their passion could suggest that passion is within you, just waiting to be revealed.

It. Is. Not.

Telling people to follow their passion suggests that passion will do the lion’s share of the work for you.

It. Will. Not.

We look at the effects of both fixed and growth mindsets and their impact on learning and curiosity.

da Vinci | that Curious Bastard

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Did you know Leonardo was an illegitimate child born during what scholars have called a ‘Golden Age’ for Bastards?

How did he fuel his curiosity? This was a man who believed ‘learning never exhausts the mind.’ That is to say he was always learning. His early years were spent living on his father’s family estate in Vinci. During this period of his life, he was also influenced by his uncle, who had a love of nature and had a hand in rearing him during his formative years. He had a very short formal schooling, he was largely an autodidact.

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Make St. Paddy’s Great Again

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March 17.

A day where many are VIP’s (Very Irish People). So many celebrating and getting sham-rocked. But do you know anything about this holiday?

Or is it holy day?

Saint Patrick was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Blue is his favorite color. Not green. Did you know we celebrate his death not his birth? Why are there no female leprechauns? Wondering, “Where is a St. Patrick’s Day parade near me,” here are your answers by state.

Find your Guinness Gang, press your luck, and join us on this whiskey business of a podcast.