Keeping The Fire: Passion and Play - a podcast by Ty Brown

This past week, I was out on a morning walk while on vacation in Flathead Lake in Montana, which is an absolutely stunning area. On morning walks you can see deer and birds diving into the water to catch fish, and our lakefront house had a beautiful dock. Yesterday on a hike we saw some bighorn sheep. I’m caught by how gorgeous and amazing this place is.

As I’ve chatted with the people who live in this area, I get the sense that after a while it ceases to be novel. For me, the beauty of this place is novel. I love being on or close to the water, but for some reason I live in Utah—where even getting to water means packing lunch and taking a long drive. For the thousands of people who live around Flathead Lake (which is in Glacier National Park, just south of the Canadian border), being on the water isn’t anything special. They live there! And while they love and enjoy their home, as time goes on the novelty wears off.

There was a time years ago when I worked for a dog training company and the novelty of dogs began to wear off for me. I felt like I was just an assembly-line trainer, and wasn’t finding opportunities to challenge myself. When I did that, I felt the novelty slip away. And then, about twelve years ago, I thought that I was done with dogs. While I still wanted to own them, I didn’t think that I wanted to work with them professionally. I was out of training for a few months. But then I started my own business, after realizing that the passion and novelty were still there. It was my format that had discouraged me from loving my job.

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