Comments on: When Passion, Not Money Drives Performance http://philcooke.com/teenage_brains/ Change Revolution Tue, 22 May 2012 20:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jared Brandon http://philcooke.com/teenage_brains/#comment-9307 Jared Brandon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/teenage_brains#comment-9307 I had the honor to meet you this week at the NRB convention and to hear you speak on the Christian media. I think what you've described here infects the Christian media. As we become more and more obsessed with the success of our ministries we forget the passion we've been given for it. We talk so much about sacrifice for our cause, but I question what I would really be willing to give up for it. Do I really have passion for my ministry or is it just a job? All the while the musician part of me would move into a cardboard box. Let your daughter know that there's a Neil Young tribute concert tonight at The Basement in Nashville. $10 at the door. All sorts of Nashville artists will be covering his music. Starts at 9. I had the honor to meet you this week at the NRB convention and to hear you speak on the Christian media. I think what you’ve described here infects the Christian media. As we become more and more obsessed with the success of our ministries we forget the passion we’ve been given for it. We talk so much about sacrifice for our cause, but I question what I would really be willing to give up for it. Do I really have passion for my ministry or is it just a job? All the while the musician part of me would move into a cardboard box.

Let your daughter know that there’s a Neil Young tribute concert tonight at The Basement in Nashville. $10 at the door. All sorts of Nashville artists will be covering his music. Starts at 9.

]]> By: Brett Glover http://philcooke.com/teenage_brains/#comment-9308 Brett Glover Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/teenage_brains#comment-9308 <p>Your 100% right!! I guessing this is exactly what Jesus meant when he said, "What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul." When we make prosperity the goal then money becomes the reward. Instead of letting the divine gifting and talents grow in us. Victor Frankl said, we need a 'why' to live and we can cope with any 'how' if we have a 'why'.Yes of cause,Man does not live by bread alone but by the word of God, Jesus' first temptation was to turning stones into bread, this sums up your blog. living only for bread is a cheap trade off, short changing the divine spirit in us.</p><p>By the way I liked your book Branding Faith, it has some good insights.</p><p>thank you</p> Your 100% right!! I guessing this is exactly what Jesus meant when he said, “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul.” When we make prosperity the goal then money becomes the reward. Instead of letting the divine gifting and talents grow in us. Victor Frankl said, we need a ‘why’ to live and we can cope with any ‘how’ if we have a ‘why’.Yes of cause,Man does not live by bread alone but by the word of God, Jesus’ first temptation was to turning stones into bread, this sums up your blog. living only for bread is a cheap trade off, short changing the divine spirit in us.

By the way I liked your book Branding Faith, it has some good insights.

thank you

]]> By: Anthony Peterson http://philcooke.com/teenage_brains/#comment-9309 Anthony Peterson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/teenage_brains#comment-9309 Rejoice America! Not everything is as bad as it seems. At least you can choose between "passion" or "money". $250 would buy your daughter a few days rent in Australia (not even one week - let alone a month). Our housing affordability crisis is having a huge impact on people wanting to pursue creative careers (and "normal" ones like teachers, police and nurses). If it stays this way much longer, I'll be advising my children to move overseas after they finished their education. Rejoice America! Not everything is as bad as it seems. At least you can choose between “passion” or “money”. $250 would buy your daughter a few days rent in Australia (not even one week – let alone a month). Our housing affordability crisis is having a huge impact on people wanting to pursue creative careers (and “normal” ones like teachers, police and nurses).

If it stays this way much longer, I’ll be advising my children to move overseas after they finished their education.

]]> By: Amanda http://philcooke.com/teenage_brains/#comment-9310 Amanda Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/teenage_brains#comment-9310 I was working as a performer in Orlando, FL after college. I was at Disney a few times, I was working in a local dinner theater but the best work on stage that I did was for free at the Civic Theater. It is now a paid rep company but then, it was for the love of it. The theater and the performance was the passion of the folks doing it. They were performers from the local theme parks and their amazing talent was not ever fully used in their day jobs...but at night! We did productions of "Sweeney Todd", "Evita", "Barnum", "La Cage Aux Folles" and dramas, and comedies. Talent oozing everywhere and no one was paid. So unlike the theater here in LA where the object is to get a better agent or manager. The object is not the ART but the ARTIST'S PURSUIT of SOMETHING ELSE THAN WHAT THEY ARE DOING! When you serve only yourself, you have bad art. Art is about serving your best because you want to express your idea, your talent, your song, your play to the world to share your emotional journey and experience. That is why passion is so important. Love for love's sake is much better than the contrived for dramatic effect. I was working as a performer in Orlando, FL after college. I was at Disney a few times, I was working in a local dinner theater but the best work on stage that I did was for free at the Civic Theater. It is now a paid rep company but then, it was for the love of it. The theater and the performance was the passion of the folks doing it. They were performers from the local theme parks and their amazing talent was not ever fully used in their day jobs…but at night! We did productions of “Sweeney Todd”, “Evita”, “Barnum”, “La Cage Aux Folles” and dramas, and comedies. Talent oozing everywhere and no one was paid. So unlike the theater here in LA where the object is to get a better agent or manager. The object is not the ART but the ARTIST’S PURSUIT of SOMETHING ELSE THAN WHAT THEY ARE DOING! When you serve only yourself, you have bad art. Art is about serving your best because you want to express your idea, your talent, your song, your play to the world to share your emotional journey and experience. That is why passion is so important. Love for love’s sake is much better than the contrived for dramatic effect.

]]> By: ScottCC http://philcooke.com/teenage_brains/#comment-9311 ScottCC Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/teenage_brains#comment-9311 Could not agree with you more. I just read an excellent book on this topic by Roy Spence, called It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For. I don't know how people succeed without being driven by a purpose. My wife and I are going to Nashville next month and we will check out the Station Inn. I just checked Bailey's page and we are going to miss her but her music is fantastic! I can hear the passion and purpose in it, which means she is bound to be successful (not determined by wealth but by the continued ability to passionately create). She probably learned how to do that from her Dad! Could not agree with you more. I just read an excellent book on this topic by Roy Spence, called It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For. I don’t know how people succeed without being driven by a purpose.

My wife and I are going to Nashville next month and we will check out the Station Inn. I just checked Bailey’s page and we are going to miss her but her music is fantastic! I can hear the passion and purpose in it, which means she is bound to be successful (not determined by wealth but by the continued ability to passionately create). She probably learned how to do that from her Dad!

]]> By: chad houck http://philcooke.com/teenage_brains/#comment-9312 chad houck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://philcooke.vintom.com/teenage_brains#comment-9312 <p>Phil, thank you for this post and I'm glad to hear that Bailey is pursuing her passion!  As I read this I am about ready to embark in the morning to take a team of high school students into Mexico to build what will be our sixth house with our UthBuild projects down there. </p><p>Just under 2 years ago, I made the decision to follow passion over money.  It has taken me and my family on an over 24,000 mile journey through some of the most amazing "Only God" experiences we've ever been a part of, and it never could have happened on the other side of the fence.</p><p>So my thank you, from one who has seen both sides of the equation, is for encouraging people, and specifically your own daughter (where the rubber really meets the road) to pursue their dreams and live their passions, regardless of how great the pay is.</p><p>Just as you said "Art is about serving your best because you want to express your idea, your talent, your song, your play to the world to share your emotional journey and experience", so I would add that LIFE is about serving your best because you want to be authentic to the same values and beliefs that you portray to others while sharing your emotional journey and experience!</p><p>Loving my pay cut AND my new, "more honest, more authentic, more reflective of my beliefs" life</p><p>-chad</p> Phil, thank you for this post and I’m glad to hear that Bailey is pursuing her passion!  As I read this I am about ready to embark in the morning to take a team of high school students into Mexico to build what will be our sixth house with our UthBuild projects down there. 

Just under 2 years ago, I made the decision to follow passion over money.  It has taken me and my family on an over 24,000 mile journey through some of the most amazing “Only God” experiences we’ve ever been a part of, and it never could have happened on the other side of the fence.

So my thank you, from one who has seen both sides of the equation, is for encouraging people, and specifically your own daughter (where the rubber really meets the road) to pursue their dreams and live their passions, regardless of how great the pay is.

Just as you said “Art is about serving your best because you want to express your idea, your talent, your song, your play to the world to share your emotional journey and experience”, so I would add that LIFE is about serving your best because you want to be authentic to the same values and beliefs that you portray to others while sharing your emotional journey and experience!

Loving my pay cut AND my new, “more honest, more authentic, more reflective of my beliefs” life

-chad

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