{"id":5920,"date":"2015-10-25T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2015-10-25T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:47:08","slug":"worth-sharing-screw-finding-your-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/10\/25\/worth-sharing-screw-finding-your-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Screw Finding Your Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Remember back when you were a kid? You would just do things. You never thought to yourself, “What are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football?” You just ran around the playground and played baseball and football. You built sand castles and played tag and asked silly questions and looked for bugs and dug up grass and pretended you were a sewer monster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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But more importantly, what I want to say to these people is this: that\u2019s the whole point \u2014 \u201cnot knowing\u201d is the whole fucking point. Life is all about not knowing<\/a>, and then doing something anyway. All of life<\/a> is like this. All of it. And it\u2019s not going to get any easier just because you found out you love your job cleaning septic tanks or you scored a dream gig writing indie movies.<\/p>\n

The common complaint among a lot of these people is that they need to \u2018find their passion.\u2019<\/p>\n

I call bullshit. You already found your passion, you\u2019re just ignoring it. Seriously, you\u2019re awake 16 hours a day, what the fuck do you do with your time? You\u2019re doing something, obviously. You\u2019re talking about something. There\u2019s some topic or activity or idea that dominates a significant amount of your free time, your conversations, your web browsing, and it dominates them without you consciously pursuing it or looking for it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s right there in front of you, you\u2019re just avoiding it. For whatever reason, you\u2019re avoiding it. You\u2019re telling yourself, \u201cOh well, yeah, I love comic books but that doesn\u2019t count. You can\u2019t make money with comic books.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fuck you, have you even tried?<\/p>\n

The problem is not a lack of passion for something. The problem is productivity<\/a>. The problem is perception<\/a>. The problem is acceptance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The problem is the, \u201cOh, well that\u2019s just not a realistic option,\u201d or \u201cMom and Dad would kill me if I tried to do that, they say I should be a doctor\u201d or \u201cThat\u2019s crazy, you can\u2019t buy a BMW with the money you make doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem isn\u2019t passion. It\u2019s never passion.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: Screw Finding Your Passion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n