Follow your heart - really

I just realized I uploaded one of the other clips with Jane Goodall.

Here is the "real" Follow your heart clip. Hope I didn't spoil it too much with the transcript earlier.

My question is, what advice would you give young adults who are just starting [their careers]?

So my advice to all young people setting out is: What is your passion? Follow your heart. Where’s your passion, and where you passion lies, that’s where you’ll make the most difference.

I’ll tell you a story. I have a great friend, a Dutchman, and he’s always been very good at making money. When he got to be about 45, he had, like so many people kind of a midlife crisis, thinking I have to give all my money away. But he didn’t. He gave some of it away.

But as usually happens in that way, you give some of it away to a foundation or a charity and you keep enough to lead a good life.

So he said to me one day, I’ve got two options, I can either do, I’m good at making money and I can go on making money. But so often I think I would rather just be. I wouldn’t be making money, I’d just be.

And I said, well you know Fred, you do care about the environment and if everybody who cares about the environment who makes money, decides not to make money and just be, then how do we operate, because we need people who can continue to make money.

So the money, the money is not necessarily a bad thing. I mean today, the world would be a very, very crummy play to live.

The private sector more, and more, and more are dealing with environmental and humanitarian issues and governments are passing over more and more opportunities come out to the private sector and to NGOs.

You know, maybe you’re really good at making money and you really love to do it there’s nothing wrong. It depends how you use that money. If you hoard it – and you know you want six cars and two houses and a couple of yachts, all that kind of thing – the I would say that is not a good way to work. But if you say, well I’m really good at making money, how wonderful. I can help this and that and the other, that’s great.

So follow your heart, and where you passion lies, that’s where you’ll make the most difference.