Episode 206: TMBA 206 – Should You Deprioritize Your Income and Go After Your Passion?

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Digital Nomad, Business, Ecommerce, Society & Culture, Amazon, Founders, Cash Flow, Places & Travel, Founder, Business Owner, Cashflow, Management, Entrepreneurship, Million, Operator, Operations, Profits, Distributed Team

4.9 • 527 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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http://www.tropicalmba.com/passion/ http://www.tropicalmba.com/passion/ This week on the Tropical MBA Podcast we decided to give Mark Manson a call to dig further into his idea that “passion is practical.” Mark walked away from big income to focus on a project he was passionate about, and it ended up working out better in the end. Was it just a fluke? Did he get...

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0:00.0	You know, when I was 20 years old, I would have assumed, like, well, either I write a novel
0:05.7	or I go get a day job.
0:07.0	Like, I never would have imagined I could have created a blogging platform that I could
0:12.4	monetize like I have.
0:14.5	That's it.
0:15.2	Ball up, ball up, fall up, fall up.
0:18.3	Paul up.
0:19.0	Paul up.
0:20.0	Ian, so I'm looking for ways to improve the audio quality of the show.
0:23.6	What do you think about Autotune?
0:24.6	I think you might be on to something.
0:26.6	Welcome to the tropical NBA podcast.
0:33.6	Boss man, looking good. You got a nice pair of shorts on there yeah getting kidded up here
0:39.6	and Saigon it's real easy to get nice clothes very expensive actually got a couple
0:44.1	calls here right after we record the podcast so I want to make sure I look good on
0:48.3	the calls I always get nervous when the video Skype comes to I'm like whoa what's
0:53.5	going on all All right,
0:55.7	today we are talking about passion in business. It's like this kind of thing in the blogosphere, right?
1:01.6	Can we chase butterflies? Is that good enough? Is the money going to follow? Mark Manson called in two
1:06.4	weeks ago to talk about the amazing things he's doing. He's got a talk called passion is practical. He talks
1:12.2	about walking away from big money, going over to little money, and ending up with bigger money.
1:18.1	So we've got to figure out how this stuff goes down and how we can apply it in what we're doing.
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