June 25, 2005

Curt Essay

Curt Rosengren

Passion and Entrepreneurship

Summary

Say the word entrepreneur, and the notion of passion inevitably follows close on its heels. The word immediately brings to mind someone so over-the-moon on fire about what they’re doing that they can’t sit still. Passion is the essence of the entrepreneurial spirit. It is an entrepreneur’s fuel, providing the drive and inspiration to create something out of nothing, enduring all the risks, uncertainty and bumps in the road that that entails.

This chapter takes a look at the role passion plays in entrepreneurial success and offers ideas on consciously leveraging the energy that passion brings with it.

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Curt Bio

Biography

As a Passion Catalyst, Curt Rosengren helps people identify their passions and create careers that ignite them. At the core of his work is the Occupational Adventure Guide, a model he developed to help his clients visualize the journey and understand the process.

Curt created his Passion Catalyst career by literally putting a framework around something he had been doing informally for years just because he loved it - helping people explore possibilities and new ways of looking at things.

Curt is also a public speaker with a passion focus and facilitates workshops to help people identify and move toward passion in their career.

Curt writes for Worthwhile magazine, a business/life magazine founded by two Wall Street Journal veterans, has been widely quoted in articles in newspapers throughout North America, and has been mentioned as a career expert on CNN. He has been interviewed on numerous radio shows around the US, has appeared in live in-studio interviews on Seattle's Q13 News, and has written career passion articles for newsletters such as job.com and net-temps.com.

Curt shares his insights on identifying and creating a passion filled career in two e-books, "The Occupational Adventure Guide: A travel guide to the career of your dreams," and "The Five Fundamentals of Occupational Adventure."

And last but not least, he maintains The Occupational Adventure, a blog focused on finding passion in your career. Forbes.com recently added The Occupational Adventure to its Best of the Web directory.