Passion

since my senior year of college i have been trying to “find my passion”.

recently i listened to a podcast with Alex Hormozi. i knew nothing about this cat prior to listening, but he said something that really got me thinking.

i don’t really remember what he said word for word but it was along the lines of: finding your passion is “bullshit”.

not my words, his.

but i agree. “finding your passion” might be a tad naive. i think passion boils down to doing something that you are just good at.

think about it. if you have been playing basketball since you were 4 years old and let’s say you are 18, graduating high school. odds are you are decent at basketball. you probably have had people over the years praise you for a good game or a good play. it has been your passion your whole life.

now did you find this passion or did you create it?

at 4 years old when you first picked up a basketball, you probably sucked at it. those around you didn’t sit around harassing a 4 year old on how bad they were. they encouraged you. they played with you. but nonetheless you sucked compared to the standard of basketball that is humanly obtainable.

by 10 you were decent. at 15 you were pretty good. and by 18 you were a good ball player.

over all of those years you got good. you started out sucking but by the time you were 18, you had spent so much time practicing you deemed basketball your passion. but not because it was inside you at birth - i think it was because you got good at it.

now this goes for anything.

that is why it is so difficult for people to “find their passion”. they spend years and years searching for something that truly has to be created.

it comes down to you being willing to really suck at something. over time you will learn. evolve. and even get good at the thing, whatever it is. at this point you have created a passion.

sounds kinda simple, but why is it that we make it so hard on ourselves.

if i look internally i think most of the time i make this endeavour of finding or creating my passion difficult based out of fear. it is hard to admit that, because i would like to think of myself of having no fear. don’t we all?

so what am i so fearful of? maybe failing? rejection? judgment? all of these feelings of fear are valid in my own perception of how i am feeling about my passions but are they valid to God?

if the Lord made the choice available to us for all things, whether it be good or evil, succeeding or failing, choosing this path or that, don’t you think that He wants us to choose Him. choosing Him means choosing good, choosing success, choosing the path he has laid for us. in His perception the feelings of fear are only valid in one realm.

the realm of God himself. Job 28:28 says “And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”

fearing the Lord is wisdom. shunning evil is understanding.

point blank and simple. use fear in the only way God intended. fear God not man. fear God not situations. fear God and not failure, or sucking at something, or what other people might think.

create your passion by choosing something that you have interest in. put yourself in an environment where others are good at that thing. suck at first. get feedback. get good. then boom, you have created a passion.

you didn’t find that passion. you put fear in God alone, you shunned evil, and you went full tilt on something you liked.

not only did you get good at something. you also earned that passion.