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My name is Marcel Van Den Berg,
and I'm a PADI Platinum Course Director.
In this video today, we're gonna be focusing on
the second most important attribute to have
to become a more successful diving instructor,
which is passion.
Passion is extremely important to make people excited
about what you are teaching them.
So, we're gonna give you some great tips today.
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and let's find out why passion is one
of the best attributes to have to become
a really, really, really good diving instructor.
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So, number two of one of the best attribute
a diving instructor can have is being passionate.
There are so many different attributes out there
but passionate must be very, very high on the list
in becoming more successful.
And again, you know,
being passionate about something is not,
I think, something you really can learn.
It's not something you can read in a book.
I mean, some people can inspire you
to become more passionable
but it's one of those attitude things again.
You know, some people have that in them.
And if you are a nice person,
so you already have that positive energy,
but now you like something,
you are gonna have a passion for it.
And you just wanna share that with the world.
Like for example, you know, somebody might be
really, really passionate about, you know, video games
and they might be talking to another person
who's not so passionate about video games.
I'm actually a little bit besides a diver,
a bit of a nerd when it comes down to video games,
and trust me, I had my share of people saying,
"Oh, my God that's for kids, you know,
and your course director, you shouldn't played video games."
that kind of stuff, right.
And, but the thing is,
if your passionate about that video game,
and you are going to be talking about that,
even to people that are not passionate, like I just said,
even those people start to become,
"Oh, I never thought about it that way,
and oh, maybe that game is cool."
Or, "Maybe I'm gonna try it out later.
I probably not gonna tell anyone,
but maybe I do want to try it out now."
So, being passionate about something it's very catching
and it's very inspiring for other people
to be compassionate now as well about something,
or at least wanna give it a try when they do it.
A great example for this in good or bad teachers
or less good teachers, you know,
I had this Physics teacher in school
and as much as I did like Physics to a certain point
because of, of of all the science fiction behind it
you know, I, again a bit of a nerd,
so I love the whole star Trek, I love to watch star Wars.
And that's where, where, where physics
and stuff really comes into play.
But when you go to school, I've
I've learned that you don't learn instantly about, you know
building warp drives and visiting on a planet
which was a bit sad, yeah?
You have to kind of start
with those, with those basic equations.
And the
the first physics teacher I had was not passionate at all.
So it was very hard, not only for me
but for others to, to, to, to, to learn
and to want to learn, you know, and when we got home
nobody wanted to do it at homework, right.
For physics, because it was so boring
we started with the fun stuff first.
And then usually we got so tired
off the fun stuff that you sometimes didn't even
do your physics homework, but then we got a replacement.
So that's physics teacher.
He got sadly though, he got a bit ill.
So you had to, you have to be at home for about six months.
So because he's replacement physics teacher
and he was so passionate, which was amazing.
And, and he really the awkward stories as well
which I think really works well. And then?
What he did he kind of, sort of like every time we had like
a boring equation that somebody didn't understand
he can kind of sort of like,
got a cool story behind it and
and didn't related at sometimes too. Okay.
Not now guys, but this is the start
of one day may be building that engine to go to other stars.
If you guys think that's cool. Right?
And all of us were like, like listening like this.
And, and they've made us do that homework the first thing,
when we got back.
We were talking about it in our own spare time,
and and a lot of us not only got really good grades
but some of us even even continued
with physics for the rest of their career. So?
It was very inspiring
for people to even change their careers.
And and and you could see there's this
this dispassion thing is for video games.
It's for, it's for teaching physics
but it's for everything.
That's what I wanted to say.
You know, if you were working in a restaurant
and you're gonna explain passionately about that plate,
that dish that's, that's now on a menu
and people are just wanna eat it, you know
and they're probably gonna like it better.
In diving,
are we passionate?
Are you passionate right there?
I think you are.
I think we are one of the most passionate people
when it comes down to a certain topic.
I mean, it's it's extremely rare, I guess.
Just going to press on the on the button for the battery
which was kind of funny.
Are we as divers passionate?
Of course we are.
I mean, we are one of the most passionate people out there.
Think about it?
We
Are we passionate?
Of course we are as scuba divers.
I have rarely Met in my life a scuba diver
that hated fish.
It's like, you know, you come back from a dive.
It's like, Oh my God guys. How was it?
Was it that fantastic.
And, and just one person saying goes like,
"I hated it."
It was like, "Oh, why do you hated it?
Were you a bit scared or current or something
because there was no current, it was crystal clear.
It was fantastic."
"Now I saw a blue fish. I Hate blue fish. We."
I don't think that that happens a lot.
Of course there's always a hater somewhere,
but even divers with the worst attitudes,
they they still really love fish
and they love corals, you know?
And, and, and, and try to turn that passion done
by talking about it with your students.
So if you feel that you're an instructor
and it's not so outgoing, like some instructors are, and
and people are sometimes maybe a little bit more bored
with you to maybe with somebody else,
then you don't have to start learning all these jokes
and stuff that does help.
We're going to talk about it soon. But?
Just be, just be a bit more passionate.
And share that passion with your students. You know?
sit down, open up the fish book
and the end of the dive and just talk to them and say, guys
did you recognize any of that fish that we sell today?
Like, which one?
I recognize dish one. What does daddy got?
That's a cool fish. It's called the trigger fish.
And they go, oh, trigger fish. Yeah?
And then the stand maybe
about going all these horror stories
that you hear are that trigger fish,
they hurt you and they attack you whatever.
Maybe, maybe just say that it's a bit of a grumpy fish.
You know, it's a really cool fish
but a bit grumpy sometimes. And,
you know, if you get into its territory
it might, chase you out. And,
but if you show respect, and it we'll just do
that for a moment and
and then later, you know
you swing around and you see him again
and you might not be so aggressive anymore.
You can really enjoy one of the most beautiful fish
that are out there, you know?
telling these stories to people
love to hear that instead of, Oh
that's a trigger fish. You know?
we don't like them.
They can attack us, come on.
You know, you're a lot bigger than that fish.
So it's, it's how you share that passion
with your students
which, which makes you a different as well as an instructor.
learning a little bit more about this fish,
you don't have to be a scientist. I mean?
Just some, some cool little stories, you know some fish they
they changed sex.
Some fish they eat specific things, which is really cool.
There's all these cool, really symbiotic relationships
between certain creatures on the water.
In between shrimp and fish,
or even different species anatomies
add there the clownfish to Nemo's, you know, just
just Google it, just Google a bit of that information.
You love to watch it anyway yourself.
And, and on the dive boat
you share that information with them
and people are on it, eat it up
like the best sandwich in the world.
When you're passionate as well
try to look people in the eyes too
because the eyes they do stream that passion.
And you can see again, if it's real or not, you know
some people try to fake passion a little bit
but it doesn't always work that well
you do have to be passionate about it.
I love personally night dives.
Night dive are one of the best things for me. And,
I always had a very high continued education
where where people often you'd open water course
like to do the advance courses as well. And,
there's this, of course, a lot of different reasons why,
so many people like to do the next course,
but but one of the biggest ones that I've always heard was
when I told my night dive story in the open whatever course,
you know, my adventure, my experience,
what I feel when I go on that night dive.
People say absolutely love to list the story
to love to they, they they feel that they're there
they feel it on that night dive.
And, and I always say like,
we're landing on another moon or on another planet.
And, you know, th th th that just makes people call
oh my God. I wanna go do another planet.
I can on this night dive, you know, I have to just
do one more course or something like that. And,
two more days I can do it.
And and people want to do it.
But then in the end, when we do it,
a lot of them they do come up extremely happier,
sometimes even a bit of a scream here and there,
or even a tear. I've seen a happy tear.
Because you, you, you really gave him
that passion as well.
You know, and that's another video later again where
I'm going to give some tips about how to
do certain dives a certain way
for people to to feel that they're in this movie,
in this adventure.
With a beginning, a story, you know
and an end, in the end as well.
But that's for a video on another day.
So anyway, I don't want to talk too long
about this passion again.
I can talk about passion forever.
But I think you've got some really good examples
that passion is very, very important.
And remember, that's not the hardest one for us
because we're already passionate.
You just have to tell your your students this. Okay?
So if you want to make a little bit more money
as an instructor, if you're trying to
get people to do the next course
or to do duty equipment, then don't do it for the money.
You know, nobody wants to get sold something.
You know, just share your passion of a diving.
Liveaboards, night dive, what's out there,
what's new, what's more, how can I enjoy it even more?
And then of course people want to have that.
And they wanna follow you.
So you become more successful.
They become better divers. Win-win situation for all of us.
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