On Passion and Competence

We can’t make someone care about something they don’t care about and we can’t unmake someone care about something that they care about. There isn’t a “your passion,” there is just passion. There isn’t a person living “their passion,” there are passionate people. There aren’t people who “love what they do” there are people that love. There aren’t people who “love what they do” there are people who are well practiced at what they do and feel competent and fluid while doing it. The things we don’t “love, like or enjoy” are the things we don’t feel competent in. The things we need more practice with. Those who seem the most passionate about what they do are just people who have specialized at it and achieve a high degree of competence. We tend to specialize in the things we are good fits for. What makes something “hard” is that we are not yet fluently capable of it.