Unfollow Your Passion KEYNOTE - MILL SUMMIT.pdf

How to Reconnect

in the Age of
Resignation
Terri Trespicio

Copyright © 2022 Terri Trespicio All rights reserved.
I’m going to begin with a
q
uestion you hate.

“What do you do?”

Why do we
hate it?
•Being judged or pigeon-holed.

•Fear of not being interesting.

•It’s hard to explain.

•Talking about it reminds me of
where I am vs. where I want to be.

What do you want to
be when you grow up?
When you’re a kid, they ask
you something else.

A teacher!

A singer!

A policeman!
…and if those don’t work out?
Baseball player.

President.

Probably not on that list?
Account executive

HR manager

Wig catalog copywriter

How can we reconnect with
meaning, value & fulfillment?

We need to unsubscribe to a
few outmoded ideas.

Your job defines you.
UNSUBSCRIBE

When I got laid off, you think I
had a purpose? I had rent.

I had no idea
what I was doing.

Today I consult with
companies & individuals
to articulate their
critical brand message.

I speak, lead
workshops, and
offer programs
to help people
tap their
brilliance.

How do I talk about what I do?

Depends on who I’m talking to.
Speaker? Yes.

Author? Yup.

Branding consultant? Correct.

Creative director? That’s right.

Copywriter? You bet.

Entrepreneur? Boom.

Does anyone care how I define
myself?
Nope.

The point:
You’re not cool because of
one job, and you’re not NOT
cool because of one.

You are not…
Your job.

Your title.

Your company.

Your resume.

Your LinkedIn profile.

“Don’t cling to the
‘what’ of your work.”
Jason Feifer, Editor, Entrepreneur
magazine & podcast host

“What do people need
from you now, and what
do you need to learn to
do it better, and who
can you work with?

How do you take that
idea into the world?”
Jason Feifer, Editor, Entrepreneur
magazine & podcast host

Entrepreneur
Rock sta
r

Independen
t

Brav
e

Leade
r

Work fueled by passion
Employee
Worker dron
e

Dependen
t

Complian
t

Followe
r

Work fueled by paycheck
UM, NOT REALLY

Entrepreneur
I’ve met plenty of
assholes who own
businesses.
Employee
I’ve met many a game-
changing leader who
worked on a team.

Entrepreneur Employee
“I’ll be stuck. I won’t
make an impact.”
“I’ll be my own boss!
I’ll change the world!”

Entrepreneur Employee
Can be thrilling, lucrative,
and rewarding.
Can be lonely, exhausting,
and expensive.

Let’s not get crazy.
Business ownership is a
tax status.

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Noreen Malone, “The Age of Anti-Ambition,” NYT
“The act of working has been
stripped bare…all that’s left now
is the job itself, naked and alone.
And a lot of people don’t like
what they see.”

“

In 2021, nearly 50 million
people left their jobs.
Source: CNN

•Low pay

•Lack of opportunities for advancement

•Feeling disrespected
Source: Pew Research Center
Top reasons why Americans quit

Russ Hill, The Great Resignation
What the lockdown in response
to COVID-19 did was pour a
massive amount of gasoline on an
already-burning
f
ire.”

“

Source: The American Psychological Association
Nearly 3 in 5 employees report
negative impacts of work-related
stress—including lack of interest
and motivation, and exhaustion.


Good times.

General Social Survey Happiness Tracker
Source: NY Times, GSS
Now.

One thing has not changed:
We want our work to matter.

“I need to find my passion first.”
UNSUBSCRIBE

Someone, somewhere, told you to
follow your passion

You know what that implied?
That you knew what that was.

1. One passion per person.

2. Identify passion.

3. Make money from it.
The passion
hypothesis says:

1. You have many passions.

2. You may change your mind.

3. The passion doesn’t have to lead.
Why it’s crap:

Aren’t you just a little bit
surprised?
Think about what (and who!) you love today.

“Stop searching for your passion”
7.5+ million views

And I wrote a book
about it.
“One of the best feel-good
books of the year”

–The Washington Post

Fixating on a passion is…risky.

Source: Psychological Science
Expect boundless motivation

Curtail other interests

Give up when things got difficult
People with a
f
ixed mindset about passion
tend to…

What if…
Rather than
“choose” a passion,
you channeled it?

Photo by Ben Hershey on Unsplash
I couldn’t have cared
less about football.

Then, someone asked
me to play.
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Standup is fun.
Do you have to
make a living
at it to do it?
God no.

Barbara Corcoran is
not passionate about
real estate.
 
 
(Her words!)

“I need to pick the right
career path.”
DO YOU THOUGH?

There is no one
path you must
follow.
Courtesy of Vecteezy

This is my friend

Kim Vandrilla.

She couldn’t choose
between copy &
design.
 
So, she didn’t.

Today, Kim is head of
brand & creative at
Clorox.
 
She’s successful not
despite what she chose,
but because of it.

What if…
You created your
own path as you
walked?

Of course I have a QR code.
Get the slide deck +

“5 Ways to Unlock
Your Creative Genius”

“You need to get out of
your comfort zone!”
YEAH, NO.
In case you weren’t
quick on the draw >>

We learn most in our comfort
zones.…It’s where we’re most
open to possibility, most
creative, insightful, and
productive.
Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, “The Feedback
Fallacy,” Harvard Business Review (April 2019)
“
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t
make my best decisions when I’m…
Anxious

Frightened
 
Hangry

What if…
You expanded
your comfort
zone.

Project Aristotle
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts”

What is the secret to effective
teams?
Google wanted to know…

A perfect mix of skills and
traits, right?
Not
q
uite.

Here’s what ranked…
#5 Impact (what will this work do)

#4 Meaning (why am I doing this)

#3 Structure and clarity (what am I doing)

#2 Dependability (can I count on you)

What was the #1 factor?
#1 Psychological safety.
It’s safe to
t
ake risks, ask questions,
suggest ideas.

Feeling secure enough to
contribute was the most
common feature, by far, of
high-performing teams.
 
“ Why Is It So Hard to Speak Up at Work? By Ruchika
Tulshyan, New York Times, March 15, 2021

Finding
f
laws doesn’t make
you all that smart.

And it doesn’t make you any
better at your job.

A picture of you
right when
someone said,
“Can I give you
some feedback?”

People don’t need feedback.
They need attention to what
they do best.
Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, “The Feedback
Fallacy,” Harvard Business Review (April 2019)
“

Push past blocks.

Q
uiet the inner critic.

Generate new ideas.

Ease consensus.

How? By creating psychological safety
in the room where ideas take root.

No criticism.

No competition.

No disclaiming.

Other perks:
•Reprogram your brain to seek new patterns

•Change the way you see your own work

•Shift the tone of your interactions

•People start listening closely (They also want to
hang out more)

What if…
We told people
what they’re
doing well?

“I’m getting older,”
 
“I should have already done that.”

“It’s too late for ____.”
OMG
STOP
STAHHHP

• Performed stand-up

• Played touch football

• Gave a TEDx talk

• Started working on a book

• Discovered tequila
An abbreviated list of things I didn’t do until I was
40
over

The day you stop learning is the day you
aging
start

It might mean you’re…
Suspended

Undecided

Afraid

What would happen if you chose? You might
Make a mistake

Embarrass yourself

Disappoint someone

Lose something

You might ALSO…
Learn something.

Surprise yourself.

Connect with someone.

Gain an insight.

Ever think you’re just
Bored?

Boredom is
part of the
human
condition.

Busy

Productive

Fun
It’s not the opposite of

meaning
It’s the opposite of

Mark Hawkins, The Power of Boredom
“
We are all actually profoundly
bored, but because there are so
many distractions, we don’t even
know it. The busier we are, the
more bored we are likely to be.”

you may block creative insight.
If you bar the door to boredom,

The phone book study
• One group copied phone
numbers out of the phone book
 
• One group read the phone book
 
• Control group
Source: Sandi Mann et al. Creativity Research Journal

Then they were given a
creative task.

Mark Hawkins, The Power of Boredom
It is by embracing boredom and
using it to learn about the truths
in our lives that we can
f
inally
create a meaningful existence.”
“

What if…
You gave
yourself space
 
to be bored?

“I need to be motivated.”
UNSUBSCRIBE

Meh, no you
don’t.

Motivation is a result,

not a precondition.”
“ Jeff Haden,

The Motivation Myth

Do you have…

a job, a career, or a
calling?
Amy Wzresniewksi

Yale School of Management
Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People’s Relations to
Their Work, A. Wrzesniewski et al.

• Reported significantly higher life
and job satisfaction
 
• Ranked work satisfaction higher
 
• Missed fewer days of work
Those who see their work as a “Calling”
Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People’s Relations to Their Work, A. Wrzesniewski et al.


Is it just about money or rank?
Nope.


Satisfaction with life and with
work may be more dependent on
how an employee
 
sees her work.


In a small subset of the
study, those who saw their
work as a calling
were in their roles
longer.

What if…
You gave yourself
the chance to
experience
progress?

“Someone else
will know what I
should do.”
“I have to do this
because I’m good
at it.”
NO & NO

There’s a lot of pressure to be…
Talented.

Successful.

Wealthy.

Known.

This is my little sister Lori.

Doesn’t mean she
has to do it for a
living.

“You could’ve done
that!” is no longer a
compliment; it’s an
insult.

What if…
Your career was
driven by what’s
next instead of
dictated by what
came before?

What can you offer now?

What do you need to learn next?

Who can you work with?

How can you channel your
experiences, talent, skill & energy
into something that someone
needs right now?

Thank you!

Stay in touch!

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