What to do if you don't have a passion - Ani’s Substack
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TLDR: Build your personal flywheel
Googling “I don’t have a passion” results in half a billion links. Half a billion. Think about that for a second. This reminds me of the Star Wars scene where the planet Alderaan, home to two billion people, was destroyed. The character Obi-Wan, witnessing this, gravely remarks that he "felt a great disturbance...as if millions of voices cried out in terror." As I witness people desperately seeking their passions, I hear their voices crying out in terror. This desperation is stoked by media, which serves us stories about how Mark Zuckerberg turned his passions for technology and business…
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