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Summer Is for Sampling - Planting the seeds of passion

I spend a lot of time studying women and men at the pinnacle of their fields. The interest they take in their work is so intense as to border on obsession. As legendary football coach Bill Walsh described it, “you’re up at 3 a.m. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper…” A lot of ambitious young adults I meet have no fear of a life like that. In fact, what they fear is the opposite: a kind of aimless wandering from one interest to another, always searching but never finding a home. Likewise, many parents ask me for advice on how to get their kids to stick to one thing for years and years like the paragons of grit I study.