Passion
topic on 8 shows · 15 statements across 14 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Knowledge Project 
BigDeal 
My First Million 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
Capital Allocators 
Top Founders 
20VC
15 statements about Passion, every show
Parr: Despite objective success at 36, he still cannot identify his passion
“I'm 36 years old. Some people might regard me as successful. I still don't know what my passion is, and I think about it all the time.”
Galloway: Career Passion Comes From Mastery and Economic Security
“Passion comes from artistry, mastery, and economic security.”
Nikhil Kamath: Passion is driven by early peer superiority, not innate calling
“I feel like all people are born the same and we all attempt different things. If I was five years old and I played cricket and I played cricket better than the 20 classmates of mine, I would organically become passionate at cricket, because I'm doing it better…”
Kamath: Passion and talent are outputs of competence, not innate inputs
“The more I think about passion and talent, Neil, in my life it's starting to sound to me more as an output than as an input. I believe I'm passionate or talented at something when I do something and I'm a little bit better at it than my peer group. I was havin…”
Kamath: Passion and talent are outputs, not inputs
“I think personally that passion and talent are two forms of the same word. We often think passion or talent are inputs. Like if you're passionate about coffee, you get into coffee and then you realize you're talented and you have a good outcome. I feel like pa…”
Holiday: Passions like anger and fear cause most historical mistakes
“At the root of most mistakes, both personally and sort of historically it's one of the passions, right? Envy, lust, anger, fear you know, pain you know, the, those sort of emotional states that take us out of the rational part of ourselves and into some sort o…”
Label Hacked: Expertise creates passion; chasing passion first is overrated
“Expertise really begets passion, not necessarily the other way around. So go for the expertise first. Passion is a bit overrated.”
Perel: Trading passion for relationship stability trades one fiction for another
“If you trade passion for stability, you basically trade one fiction for another. Both are products of our imagination”
Perel: Marriage was historically an economic enterprise separate from passion
“We've never looked for, you know, the word passionate marriage is a contradiction in terms. We've never looked for passion in the same place where we looked for security and anchoring and somebody with whom to pay the checks and fix the house. These two things…”
Daher: Passion for a mission alone will not sustain founders
“If you have a mission you're really, really passionate about, that's great. And that's awesome. But that alone will not get you through the hard times of the company. It's kind of piece one. And then piece two is, I think, you really develop a passion for the …”
Giertz: Burnout is much easier when you are deeply passionate about work
“I feel like it's in some way easier to burn out when it's something you're really excited about and care for”
Career choices should follow daily enjoyment of work rather than passion
“When young people say, I want to go with my passion, it bothers me because passion to me is an irrational, powerful emotion, and I'm not sure if passion is the right thing
To guide somebody.
But if you said, no, I really enjoy the nature of the work, and I'm r…”
MacAskill: Passion stems from mastering a subject rather than preceding it
“Passion tends to result from mastery of a subject or mastery of an area rather than vice versa.”