Why You Don't Find Your Passion, You Create It

0:00People want to find their passion, but you don't find it, you create it. And you create it by getting good at something. And to get good at stuff, you start by doing something you suck at. Then you get good, then you like it, then people ask how you found your passion. Answer: by starting when you sucked and not giving up. Yeah, I hate the passion mantra. I really do. I mean, part of it was because um I'll even I'll even play it out. So, I I read all the same self-help books early on when I was, you know, in my watch preneurial days and I was trying to find my passion and I was into fitness. And so, I was deciding between fitness, test prep because I was good at test prep, and uh frozen yogurt cuz I like dessert.

0:41Right? So, I have like these are my three quote passions, which let's just translate that into things you're interested in. And so, as soon as I started the gym, my passion disappeared. It became work. And I had a different mentor later in my life who said, "Never create work around your passion because then it'll become work." And he was a guy who was a very successful business guy. And I think about that actually more than I than I share because it's just complete and utter [ __ ] because it assumes that what you're going to be doing every day is the thing that you're currently really interested, which also doesn't make you money. And so, your behavior has to change. And whenever you're doing these new things, one, they'll be new, which means you will suck at them, which means you'll probably not like them, but it's also part of it. And so, like I would prefer to take the extreme opposite position of everything will suck, and eventually you will get good at the things that you suck at, and then you'll enjoy being competent at that thing, which will then probably give you status, and you'll enjoy the fruits of status more than the pain of doing the thing. And in so doing, create a positive feedback loop that you'll actually keep sticking with it. And so, I would rather set the expectation that everything is terrible all the time forever.

1:53Now, let's see if we can make our Now, let's see if we can become the person who can still do it anyways. Um and start that as the baseline rather than trying to assume that I need perfect conditions in order to start. Because I mean, starting is the perfect condition. Like whatever condition that you're in that you start was the perfect condition. Real quick, if you are a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you like, I'd like to give you a free gift.

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