Passion Is Suffering, Not Happiness | Ep 935

If you're suffering right now in pursuit of the thing that you find meaningful, there is nothing wrong with you. You are not on the wrong path. And this is how it works. And the people who try to tell you otherwise either don't know better or actively are trying to destroy you. People want to follow their passion, but don't even know what it actually means.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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