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Originally Posted by IKE
Is "passion" a learnable behaviour? I first saw this video a couple of months ago and it really struck a cord with me then. It still strikes a cord with me for many reasons, but a conversation at lunch today got me wondering if "passion" is a learnable trait. Or is passion what occurs at the intersection of skill and interest? Or is passion a personality trait that some are born with and some are not? Or (most likely) is it a mixture of the above factors?
P.S. The lunch comment was about a person so passionate about things that they could get a crowd excited about collecting pennies.
This would seem that passion can be spread and thus is acquireable and not just a born characteristic, but is is just infectious to those that are susceptible?
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I don't know if passion is the right word for what you are describing. Passionate people are able to motivate people and get them excited about new things but rarely are they able to actually transfer that passion for the long term. Are the people that are newly excited about collecting pennies going to drive 10+ hours strait to get to the 17th annual pennyathon, 3 years after they meet the passionate person? Their books of pennies will be moved to a shelf, and then to a box in the attic never to be seen again until a garage sale. It's the perseverance that allows people to be happy for many years after they discover a passion and start living it everyday.
This blog post does a good job describing the difference