Title: To Die Without Living

Topic: Why people should choose passion of income

Specific Purpose: To persuade people into what I believe to be the true way to pick a job

Thesis: I believe in keeping the fire of your passions alive and not letting money be your motivation because working a job you don’t like won’t make you happy, people undergo learned helplessness, and working a job you actually like will bring the paycheck later on through delayed satisfaction.

Intro: I want to tell you a little story about when I was younger. A story about passion. A senior in high school who wanted to come to VMI. I banked hard on coming here, all I wanted was to come to this school and become an officer after. At first I wanted to be a marine but I was quickly shot down because of childhood asthma, so I switched to Army. When I came here, I strived towards my dream, my passion. I always thought my purpose was to protect people, for the strong to shelter the weak. But around my third class year I was hit with a big blow. I became a diabetic and that ended my military career before it started. After that I became lost. I did a job I was good at, which game me a lot of money, but I had lost my passion in return. I was empty inside. But in hitting rock bottom I found the motivation to find my passion again.

Thesis: I believe in keeping the fire of your passions alive and not letting money be your motivation because working a job you don’t like won’t make you happy, people undergo learned helplessness, and working a job you actually like will bring the paycheck later on through delayed satisfaction.

1. First Main Point: Most people work day in and day out in jobs they do not even like because they feel safer in their paychecks than they do in the risk of doing what they love.
   1. Passion should be more than a paycheck.
   2. Take money out of the equation and realize what type of work would help you grow as a person in the long run.
2. Second Main Point: People don’t know when they are depressed at their own job.
   1. Learned helplessness symptoms: Giving up – not trying to make a difference, Social withdrawal, Passivity, Decreased effectiveness at work, Decreased problem-solving ability, Procrastination, Frustration, Low self-esteem

• Third Point: Passion creates an environment that makes a person grow. Business Insider says : numerous studies have shown that happy people tend to earn higher salaries — and it stands to reason that these high-earners are happy — at least in part — because they have jobs they love.  

• Conclusion: David Hume once said that reason is and should be a slave to the passions. This could not be more true than in today’s ever rushing world. So, friends, I invite you to share in my belief, the belief that work should fill one with purpose, no matter how long you must take to get there.

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Wakeman, Cy. “Why Learned Helplessness Is the Fast Track to Disaster.” Forbes. Forbes

Magazine, 11 Aug. 2011. Web. 13 Feb. 2017.

David Hume – Reason a slave to the passions

Bob Marley – Search for happiness will never end

David McRaney / You Are Not So Smart. “The Fascinating Scientific Reason Why “Money Doesn’t

Buy Happiness”.” Alternet. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2017.