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Film Courage: John, what do you think of the saying ‘We all have one true passion?‘
John Vorhaus, Author/Speaker/Artist/Screenwriter: I would say that saying is incomplete. A more complete expression would be:
We all have at least one true passion.
In just thinking about my life, my understanding of my controlling idea, my one true passion has changed over time. Broadly speaking I would say my passion set equally in habits:
-Writing
-Teaching
So my one true passion is comprised of two true passions. I think one true passion limits the conversation.
Film Courage: Did you grow up with the idea that there was one true thing that you knew you should devote your life to or is this something that you’d been exposed to early on?
John: You know, it’s funny, since we met last among other things, I did a thought experiment. I wrote a memoir called John Vorhaus: Year-By-Year. The challenge of it was to describe every year of my life to no more than one paragraph.
-First years are easy
-1955, don’t remember
-1956, don’t remember
-1957, vague memories of cheese
At a certain point I start to get into my teen years for instance and look at who I was and what I felt at the time and one thing that struck me as I reflected was I had this sense that I wanted to be big in the world. I didn’t really know what that meant but I just knew that I desired that thing. I didn’t even articulate it around Oh, I want to be an actor or a writer or an artist or anything just known I think and that idea.
Then as I reflected on my 20s I realized that that teen idea was…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
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BIO:
John Vorhaus is best known for his comedy-writing classic, The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You’re Not. He has taught and trained writers in 37 countries on five continents at last count, and created TV shows of his own in Nicaragua, Romania and elsewhere. His writing credits include dozens of teleplays and screenplays, plus seven novels and some two dozen works of non-fiction. His latest book is the little book of STANDUP. Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Writers Guild of America. He lives in Southern California and secretly controls the world from JohnVorhaus.com.
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