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The Passion Lie — Why You Must Start With Discipline To Get To Passion
There are two big lies that exist in the world today regarding passion.
First is the lie is that it is something one can just stumble upon and have.
As long as you explore your life you will, eventually find what you are passionate about.
The second lie is that once you do find it, life will be easy.
It will be satisfying to work every day, you will love what you do and it’s like a happy forever after.
A nice idea, that’s for sure, but not how passion works.
Passion is a general attitude you build towards something.
That does not mean that you love it every single day, but rather something that you love overall because you learned to love it.
Over the course of the month, the year and the decade you will find more days than not in which you truly enjoyed what you did.
But it also takes that much time to build the passion for it.
It’s the consistent investment, the nearly daily challenging of your limits and the growth you experience that give you such a large stake in this area that your mind cannot not make you love it.
