Why I need to know it?
To choose a right thing that I can work and it works for me. To live a purposeful life.
I think passion is a result of feeling skillful, happy, impactful, respectful, meaningful in what I do.
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Skillful: At least you are capable of doing it.
Happy: You enjoy it. It gives you short-term motivation doing it, so you can maintain it.
Impactful: It is significant, even with a few people.
Respectful: People value it.
Meaningful: It really help people in a good way.
The significance of you passion is how much pain you accept to get it.
That is the thing will bring me true happiness when pursuing it, even it can be a pain. So, I can dedicate time, effort, money to build something great which is related to my purpose. I can direct and motivate other people together build the thing.
What should I do if I have all of the money I need?
If I have huge money for the living of the whole family, a big house, luxury things, whatever,… I still enjoy being a salesman. I still run business. I still try hard to run business. I still attempt to build great business, which build up the value that help people. I want to make profit on it even in case I don’t need money. I love the nature of business, it is profit-driven. It incentivizes right things.
Solving people problem and bring people benefit while making profit make me satisfied at the end of the day. With successful business, I help my customers, my staff, my country and myself.
(i) By building good products, I help my customer to solve their problems, to fulfill unmet needs, to make more money, to save more money.
(ii) With successful business, I help my staff earn more money, skill, experience.
(iii) With successful business, I nurture industries, I contribute to GDP.
After death, what is the most important thing I want everyone think of me?
One word: L E A D E R.
1 – A leader in myself: Strong habit + Project Mindset
2 – A leader for my staff: A tough, challenging, bold leader, who is willing to criticize people to help them understand the real tough thing in life. A person who help them develop skill and knowledge. A person who drive them to work as a passion.
3 – A leader for my partners: I will never betray who I have partnered with. I will choose win-win by all cost. Who they appreciate as trustful, impactful.
4 – A leader for the organization I participate: I contribute the best of mine to make it better. When I work for a company, my motto is “I don’t just go to work, I go to change”.
5 – A leader for the industry I am in: Set a new standard of what is the right thing to do. Be the leader in what we try to do.
What are right metrics for a true passion?
– Have I experienced on it
– Am I satisfied, regardless pain or suffer, regardless that I feel comfortable or not.
– Am I capable of doing it
– Am I willing to attempt hard on it
I love making impact in the business world. I feel really excited when I myself and other people see me as a true leader regardless tittle.
I love creating value for people and exchange it for money. It is sales. It is business. Regarding sale, it is mutual benefit, it is fair. It is fair among sales people. It is a fair relationship between customer and salesman.
I love doing give first and take latter. I like demand and supply.
I am willing to make people feel uncomfortable first, but satisfied latter, by giving them the true thing that they eventually want to get.
I like money regardless whether I am in need of it or not.
I like business world. It is tough, bold, realistic. The direct competition is hard. In the business world, no matter how hard you try, no matter how smart you are, no matter where you study, it should reward the most valuable one. The one who can give the value that people are in need of. It is tough, it is true whether you accept it or not.
Money is one of the best ways to measure value. I accept other way of measuring value like how meaningful or how many people was saved,… Unlike other metrics of measuring value, money is easily measurable, well-accepted nation-wide, across industries. For that reason, I love money.
In business world, no one can lie for a longtime. The value of what you deliver will be evaluated correctly in the long-term.
In a nutshell, I want to be a business leader. That is a person who drives change in myself, people, and my business to deliver value to people: my customers, my people and eventually myself. I measure the success by how much money the business make. It is about how much value I create to my customers, my people and myself.
I love selling. It is about give and take. Mostly, give first, take latter. Particularly, it is about giving benefit to customer then, taking profit back. It is mutual benefit. Mutual benefit is sustainable.
Principle #1: The value is how much is maximum that you are willing to pay for. Value for 1 person = Maximum cost that person is willing to pay for.
How much I can sacrificed for to follow this purpose? And example?
Example 1: When working in Keyence, I made cold-call to customer, delivered catalog, objection, meeting cancellation,…. but at the end of the day, I am happy. The happiness does not come from achieving the goal, but it about my value, how much value I give to customer = how much the customers are willing to pay for. This is my mission when I was a sales engineer in Keyence. Besides, cultivating people giving value to customers and, concurrently, making their own value are my mission when I was a Keyence leader.
Example 2: When I was sophomore in FTU, I sold English Book, primarily TOEIC book. I spent 3 hours cycling to deliver books to customer, while profiting 20.000 VND. But I am very happy because I give the benefit to customer that she is happy, let alone that the profit of 20.000 VND is considered not effective. At the end of the day, I found myself truly happy.