Irish Independent - Farming

Passion is not something to outsource

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THESE days, outsourcin­g is a favoured concept and a much-vaunted practice in the way we do business at all levels.

I remember once sitting at a meeting waiting for the last of the participan­ts to arrive. He bustled in late, explaining he had to change a wheel on the car before he left home. The patrician character chairing the meeting looked at the latecomer over his glasses and asked: “Do you not have a man to do that sort of thing?” As the practice gains currency, we are in danger of outsourcin­g all aspects of our engagement with life, big and small, even our passion. We could do well to listen to the great Carl Jung, who said: “A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

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