For Georgetown:

I love sports and I played varsity Basketball and Netball. I am enthused about helping the disadvantaged and I was VP of Interact Club. I am fascinated about entrepreneurship and I was elected as the CEO of the Junior Achievement startup company. If I have any talent, it would be my passion. I am passionate about playing sports, effecting positive changes around me and creative problem solving in the real-world.

Passion gives me eloquence and power of persuasion as a change-maker and visionary. Observation told me that browbeating people into submission about their un-environmental habits makes few converts. Getting people enthused by my vision of a “Fragrant Harbor” (the original meaning of Hong Kong) is more effective in winning hearts and minds. Therefore, as the co-chairman of Dream Green Team, the environmental group in my school, I opt to convince than to coerce. To keep enthusing others, I also have to keep enthusing myself and not let the skepticism of others dampen my ardor.

My passion also makes me a natural leader. My fervidness about basketball makes me a ubiquitous cheerleader in good times or bad. Enthusiasm drove me to lead by example, and that’s what I did. Those of my class watched me grow as a character and those younger watched me grow as a player. Through pain and sweat, I became captain, and many now aim to do the same. As the captain, I lead by persuasion and inspire by vision. My game is all about building and investing trust in the skills we have acquired in the plays we develop as a team. There can be no team spirit without passion.

Passion also got me through the tough challenges of running a venture business. My enthusiasm and can-do spirit got me elected as the CEO of the Junior Achievement startup company in my school. My fervid depiction of my vision for the company fired up everyone’s imagination and their urge to come up with innovative ideas. My fierce devotion to my team mates fanned up everyone’s sense of ownership and their willingness to work long and hard hours. However, my fervor did not take the pain out of making tough decisions and delivering unpalatable truth. My mission is to fuse creativity with consistency, and fervor with discipline.

It would be unfortunate to have the talent but not the passion. I would be equally disastrous to have the passion but not the talent. But it is hard to tell if one has the talent without trying. With enthusiasm, small talent may be wrought large and large talent wrought larger.

I have a passion for passion.