Who? Me?? » kenyon http://kidakaka.com/blog Random musings which I rather not say out loud :) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:43:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Passion and intent http://kidakaka.com/blog/2010/01/07/passion-and-intent/ http://kidakaka.com/blog/2010/01/07/passion-and-intent/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:06:17 +0000 Prasad http://kidakaka.com/blog/?p=675 Bill Watterson to in the commencement speech to his alma matter (Kenyon College), came out with several gems. I wonder how many of them will be retained by the original audience.

An excerpt -

Like many people, I found that what I was chasing wasn’t what I caught. I’ve wanted to be a cartoonist since I was old enough to read cartoons, and I never really thought about cartoons as being a business. It never occurred to me that a comic strip I created would be at the mercy of a bloodsucking corporate parasite called a syndicate, and that I’d be faced with countless ethical decisions masquerading as simple business decisions.

Bill talks about his passion, and how it manifested in different forms during his college years. How the passion overtook him, and then how the business overtook his passion. Without keeping your mind fresh, if you engage with passion, then even you might go through the same experience. The key to it is to play and keep an open mind for different ideas and experiences. So what new did you learn today?

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