Daniel Lerner: Pursue your passion
What type of passion will affect your level of happiness?
Can happiness and success co-exist? That depends on how you define success.
“The idea of happiness and success don’t always go together,” says Daniel Lerner, co-author of “U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (and in Life)” and professor at New York University. “And when they do, they don’t always go together like we expect them too.”
Lerner, who gave a keynote address on the final day of CUNA’s America’s Credit Union Conference in Boston, says passion, or an intense desire or enthusiasm for something, exists in two different forms: harmonious and obsessive.
While both types of passion can lead to success, Lerner says an obsessive passion can have a detrimental effect on someone’s life.
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