What we do well, what we are paid to do, what we want to do

I chanced upon this Venn diagram by Bud Caddell on the internet; and I could not help but admire how succinctly it sums up the secret of happiness in life.

Think about people we idolize today, say a Sachin Tendulkar or a Bill Gates or a Warren Buffet.

What does Sachin do well? Play cricket. What does he want to do? Play cricket. What does her get paid to do? Play cricket.

Before he 'retired' from Microsoft and got involved with philanthropy, what did Bill Gates do well? Write software. What did he want to do? Software again. What did he get paid to do? Write software.

Some people are born with a combination of genius, drive and passion that bless them with life in the Hooray zone. For the rest of us, I admit that finding the Hooray spot in the diagram above is not easy.

What is dismaying however, is how many people have stopped looking for it.