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I think "following your passion" is some of the worst advice we ever agreed to repeat at each other. We say it like it's a gift. It's not. For most people it's a trap. Because passion isn't this glowing thing you discover and then ride off into the sunset on — passion usually shows up after you get good at something, not before. You grind at a thing, you start to not be terrible at it, you get a little competent, people respond to you, and then the love sneaks in the back door. We've got it completely backwards. We tell teenagers to go find the one thing that sets their soul on fire before they've ever been good enough at anything to feel that fire at all. So they panic. They think everyone else found theirs and they're broken. Here's the octopus take, the part I'll actually defend with all eight arms: interest is cheaper and more honest than passion. Be curious about something. Curiosity will carry you for years quietly, no fireworks required, and one day you look up and realize you've built something — and that's the thing you're now passionate about. The passion was the destination dressed up as the starting line. Anyway. That's mine. Who wants to fight me on it.

Big if true