Fearless Passion: Find the Courage to Do What You Love Paperback – September 14, 2014

The author does a great job at covering all basis, helping you sort out your thoughts to gain clarity and become more decisive.

A Must Read for Passion Seekers. This book is a real sleeper! I've been looking at the subject for years and never found anything worth reading or a book worth keeping on this subject. This book changes everything for me. Well organized and written by a very talented author who knows what he's talking about. If you want to find your passion this is the book to get you started. Don't hesitate...this book will change your life.

An excellent book for self reflection and goal setting. Chan presents effective exercises to identify the reader's passions, and provides direction in developing the courage to work past fears and live the fulfilling life we we see for ourselves.

Here writes a guy who believes -and seemingly lives- what he says. The book is about following your passion and I think it's a good book. It is truely motivating, and it tries to help overcome barriers that are blocking the way (or at least seem to do). Partially the book widens its scope to offer some time management, general live or even budget advice. I think the author has made his homework and delivered a pretty complete picture of how to effectively be successful in following your passion.The writing is consistent and feels easy; I can imaging YKC talking in pretty much the same style.But there's a downside (and a reason for not giving 5 stars): I think the book overstates the word passion (I was close to puting the book aside because I didn't want to read the word one more time... ;-) ) and is presumes a somewhat loose definition of what a passion is (a too wide one IMHO). At least for me there is a definite difference between "a passion" and something I enjoy doing. Not everyting I am enthusiastic about is already a passion.A chapter about "how to manage you multiple passions" is kind of over the top (=a luxury problem) as most people will have difficulty finding one (although the book tries to help there, too).Partly the book emphasizes more on pursuing a happy life (by follwing... you get it); which is ok, but not really the topic.Finally I think that some of the sample stories are too weak (I get what he's trying to show, but still one or the other story feels a litte "so what"), things are a little naive in places and there was dry phase about 2/3rds into the book where it turns a little slow. But it gets back...3.5 stars actually...>Note: I received a free evaluation copy from the author<

Just to let you know, I received a free review copy of this book in return for an honest review.Fearless Passion is a book where the author, Yong Kang Chan, draws on his own life experiences to help you with your own passion. He takes you through the various stages of leaving his own career, finding temporary employment with HBO Asia and the various bits about learning of his passion, animation. Not only that, but the author has collected all sorts of stories from varying people and what they did in order to overcome the obstacles and find their own path to passion.The first thing I like is how the author draws from his own experiences. In many other books I've read in this fashion, it seems like it's easy for those authors to become conceited. However, this author does a particularly good job of using scenerios that we can all draw some experience from. He talks, in varying chapters, about things many people experience during childhood. Many of these examples are things like classroom and school related, learning new things like riding a bike, bullying, and other things many people will have experience of. Likewise, other examples can be very general and he references movies, books and famous people.While the book gives you support on following your passion, it also gives you tips on how to do it even if you haven't got a passion. It encourages you to look at yourself and find what you truly enjoy. Once you've found your passion and determined what you want to do, it then gives you a bunch of information on what you might want to do. It questions whether you'd like to do it full/part time, what kind of goals you'd like to acheive and even how it might affect your friends and family. I think the most valuable piece of advice in the book is the way of subtley transitioning into your passion. That, for example, you might not want/ be able to leave your job, so it gives you tips on how to stay focused with your passion while giving you the time to leave your job appropriately.It's pretty well written and gives you a lot of information and ideas towards what you could do to follow your dreams. My only thought is that some of the text might not be entirely relevant to everyone. In that respect, you don't need to follow everything the book says. It's essentially just a guide. One person might use various things from the book, taking whichever portions they find inspiring or helpful, while another might use different bits entirely. I did like the way that the author scouted experiences from other people as well, drawing from their different experiences to illustrate his points.Overall, I think it's worth five stars. As above, I've mentioned that it's written well and the author has a lot of good points, arguments and examples as to the situations you might encounter once you've decided to follow your passion.

This is a book about doing what you really want with your life, about following whatever your passion is. Why do we have to spend our entire life doing things we don't really care about? Yong Kang Chan wrote this book based on his real life experience: stuck on an accounting job, he changes his life the day he decides to pursue his real passion: animation.The book is divided in three parts. The first is about the real nature of passion, i.e. the definition of "passion". The second is about the fears that we have to overcome once we've found out what our passion is. The third part focuses on how to make a career out of what we relly love to do. The author builds the book around some real life stories of people who learnt to live following their passiona; none of them did it without some plan.Compared to other self-help books, this one seems to me really encouraging and down-to-earth. I would recommend reading it to people who have doubts about the career they have chosen. This book will help them to make important decissions in a sensible way and to find a way of spending their lives doing what passionates them.I received this book in exchange for my review.

I’ve read some of the author’s other books too and find his writing style very engaging and easy to read, with lots of inspiration! I’d also recommend his other books