While Ted starts to find his passion, we watch Marshall and Robin struggle with their careers in the season. This, too, perhaps starts his highest expression of talent. Lily encourages Ted to change his career route in “The Leap”: “Architecture is killing you, Ted, and it’s killing us to watch it killing you.” However, all of that “killing” pays off once he becomes a professor of architecture at the end of the season - a dream he didn’t realize he had. Though, having friends around in failure helps turn it into a success. Of course, Ted tries and eventually fails. It’s like I’m giving up before I even started,” (“Mosbius Designs”). First, it was Ted’s dream to design a skyscraper, then it became his dream to run his own business, which he has a quote about: “The longer I put off starting my own firm, the longer it can remain a dream and not something I screwed up at. There were times when he did enjoy his work, and that made him reflect on what he wanted to do. We watch him struggle with work throughout the entire season, from getting fired on a skyscraper project and then having his small business fail it was indeed a rough year. The biggest player of passion in Season 4 is Ted. Passion is the thing that will help you create the highest expression of your talent. An excellent quote from Larry Smith in his TedxUW Talk “Why you will fail to have a great career” comes to mind regarding passion: HIMYM inspires the audience to follow their dreams and also challenges them as to what is an appropriate job in life. It’s reassuring and inspiring that dreams can come true with enough belief and work. Many TV shows revolve around/incorporate work into the story line, so I always enjoy it when shows promote characters finding their passion, finding jobs that they love. He had to be patient to stumble upon the best job, one he loved. The two important themes I see partly come from Future Ted’s quote recapping his year: passion and patience. So, I don’t treat that as a focus for the themes from Season 4. While Season 4 starts with Stella and Ted getting engaged, that quickly comes to an end with Stella leaving Ted for her ex in the 5th episode of the season. A lot of other negative events like getting fired and beaten up (both by a crazy bartender and a goat) also happened to him yet, in classic Future Ted-fashion, he explains the power of struggle: “Because, if any one of those things hadn’t happened, I never would have ended up in what turned out to be the best job I ever had.” This mindset can come as a surprise, especially considering that Ted got left at the altar by his fiancee, Stella. “And damn it, if it wasn’t the best year of my life,” Future Ted exclaims to his kids about the year he had in Season 4 (2008 into 2009).
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