{"id":4117,"date":"2014-04-29T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacopoperfetti.com\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2014-04-29T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T16:36:30","slug":"love-what-you-do-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/love-what-you-do-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love What You Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was walking the streets of Milan when I came across a writing on a wall: \u201cLove What You Do\u201d. At the beginning, it drew my attention simply because <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.jacopoperfetti.com\/wow\/\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m used to reading all the writing on the wall that see<\/a>. Basically because I find them (the writings on the wall) the most genuine and true expression of human thought. More than what you can read on a newspaper or on the Internet. Nevertheless a few minutes later, I was on the point of turning back to change that writing, but I didn\u2019t do it, for three reasons 1) I didn\u2019t have a marker. 2) I was late. 3) I didn\u2019t want to change a message someone else left. Now the point is the order of the sentence. It\u2019s not \u201cLove What You Do\u201d but its complementary opposite. \u201cDo What You Love\u201d. The difference is thin but deep. \u201cLove What You Do\u201d means that first you do and then you try to love what you are doing. And that sounds like an imposition. It\u2019s a passive message. Avoid the act of choice. \u201cDo What You Love\u201d instead, means first you understand what you love and then you try to realize it. Just like Nietzsche\u2019s Zarathustra when you turn from camel to lion. From \u201cI have to love what I do\u201d to \u201cI want to do what I love\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was walking the streets of Milan when I came across a writing on a wall: \u201cLove What You Do\u201d. At the beginning, it drew my attention simply because I\u2019m used to reading all the writing on the wall that see. Basically because I find them (the writings on the wall) the most genuine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/love-what-you-do-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love What You Do<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-nietzsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacopoperfetti.com\/archive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}