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Passive income is the Holy Grail of entrepreneurship. Classic examples of passive income include book sales and patent royalties. The idea being that you write the book or invent the widget and set it loose on the world. You put in the upfront effort and then passively reap the rewards.

Given that, let me introduce you to passive witnessing…

Imagine a ghetto. People are herded in and left to live on their own. Walls are built around the ghetto to keep people on the inside in and people on the outside out. Some food and other basic necessities are thrown…

What are Christians known for? We’re supposed to be known for our love.

I don’t think that’s how we’re known. I think we’re more commonly known for our protests and boycotts.

“But,” you protest, “I’m not like that.”

Let me give you a quiz…

You’ve made it through all the monstrous posts in this series. This one is somewhat shorter. If you understand this post though, you understand the bondChristian’s motivation for being interesting.

You have your belief beverages. You have your main course action. Now let’s make a cake.

When I think of being interesting in general, I think of people talking to one another, engaging each other with discussion. Most people in fact are interested in being interesting because of this experience part…

Here’s where all the craziness of beliefs and being interested start to pay off in action you can actually taste.

Once you have your beliefs in place (the primary one being that you focus on being interested), you’re ready to delve into the tangible aspects of action, the main course if you will…

Your beliefs are the first place to start when trying to up your interesting factor. Why? Remember beliefs > action > experiences? For you to get interesting action or experiences, you first need interesting beliefs.

Your beliefs are like the beverages of a meal. They’re sustaining, essential for you to live to eat the food, but also delicious, enticing the taste out of the main course…

Here’s a formula you should know, and this applies to more than simply being interesting or interested.

Beliefs > Action > Experiences

Think of it like this. Beliefs are future oriented…

As a said in my last post, to be interesting, be interested.

Why is that true?

Let’s run through a few interesting people…

This began as a list post. A few tips, a few habits to try, you know, the normal blog post thing.

You won’t find that here.

Instead it turned into a series. Over the coming week, I’m going to add new installments to this series regularly. Here’s what we’ll cover…