Alex Mandossian on living your passion
Alex Mandossian: I was studying the works of Joseph Campbell back then, and he had this great quote which reads, “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
At that moment, who I was with my family was a workaholic. I was working 16 hours a day. I don’t know if you are familiar with New York City, but if you come home before 9:00 PM at night, you are not working hard enough.
People come back to their apartments and to their studios and one bedroom, two bedroom apartments in three piece suits at 9:00 – 10:00 o’clock at night. That is normal. That is just the way life is in Manhattan. I lived on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. I worked on Madison Avenue.
I loved what I did, but I was living into someone else’s passion. That was the story of my life. I didn’t realize back then that there was a collision between personal and professional passion.
Alex Mandossian - from interview: Choices: When Passions Collide
book - The Business Podcasting Bible: Wherever My Market Is… I Am, by Alex Mandossian, Paul Colligan
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