Find Something Worth Suffering For | Ep 950

People want to follow their passion, but don't even know what it actually means. So the root of the word passio is Latin for suffering. So it's not about doing what you love. It's about finding something that you love enough that it's worth suffering for. And so pick something worth suffering for.

And what's interesting about this is that the first usage of the word passion came from passion of Christ, which was literally Jesus Christ's crucifixion story. And so it's interesting that this has been bastardized into following your passion means doing what you love. And the reason I'm making this video is because I had a young man stop me, say that he quit his job, went all in on entrepreneurship, but then he didn't like what his life looked like. And so he asked me what he should do.

And the reality was that he quit because he thought that he was doing something wrong because he wasn't loving every second of it. And so here's the big problem. Your passion only exists in the vague, not in the specific. So even if you start a business around what you believe to be your passion, 95% of what you do every day, if you're successful, will not be your passion.

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