In the last blog post, I mentioned that there has been some ‘fallout’ after my TEDx talk in Chatham Kent. One of the most interesting ones was that unbeknownst to me there was another TEDx event in Russell Square (London,UK) the day before on Feb 12th where a woman named Susanna did a talk titled ‘5 Keys to living life with passion’. After my talk video was uploaded to youtube in March, Susanna seen it and reached out to
me. We arranged a phone call and had a mind blowing chat about how I see things, my talk journey and her talk, what her thoughts were and what her researched proved. Susanna studied passion through researching TEDx speakers for her masters degree in positive physiology. Ironically during her studies she connected with a professor in Montreal Canada — Dr. Robert J. Vallerand. Dr. Vallerand has done some research on this and is one of the very few that published a paper on the passion topic titled ‘On the Psychology of Passion: In Search of What Makes People’s Lives Most Worth Living’. If you remember back from one of my previous posts of my TEDx talk journey, Amanda H from Houston sent me some academic papers on passion and go figure, one of those was Dr. Vallerand’s.
It fascinates me that there are so many synergies on this topic and the day prior to the TEDx Chatham Kent event, ~3500 miles (~5700kms for you metric folks) away from Chatham — Susanna did a talk on passion. Check out Susanna’s talk below and then you might want to re-watch my talk…you tell me if there are any synergies 🙂
Susanna and I continue to be in contact and who knows where it’ll lead. Perhaps it’s a little bit of fate that has connected us…perhaps it’s simply horizontal passion 🙂
Feel free to understand more of what Susanna does as a Happyologist by visiting her website at http://www.happyologist.co.uk or following her on twitter (@SuskyH)
I’ve got some other fall out stories so stay tuned for my next post!
— Kyle
The Passion Formula 