Chapter 73. Be Passionate and Bold

 

“I love the moody, almost frantic style of Ramsey, always searching for the next great eating experience, passionate about his art.”

 
 --Reader’s review of Gordon Ramsey’s A Chef for All Seasons

If you’re not going to be passionate about your work, what are you going to be passionate about? Look, you spend more time at work doing work, living, breathing, and being work, than anything else except perhaps sleeping. You must be passionate about what you do. You’re passionate about sex, but that doesn’t last as long as your career. You’re passionate about food, and you only eat three times a day—work is continual. You’re passionate about your life, your hobbies, your family, your vacations. And yet an awful lot of ...

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