Episode 574: Why Passion Won't Lead to Success

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This is a topic I really wanted to dive into today, which is this idea of following your passion. You know, I think a lot of times, successful people tell other people that they should be following their passion, when really, in my opinion, I think what we should be doing is following our effort, because wherever our effort is, is where we build reps.

And the more reps we have in something, the more time we put into something, the better we get at that thing, and that is where we really kind of find our success. You know, I don't know where the lines got blurred, where it became this idea that we have to have our job and our career be what we're the most passionate about. I love watching documentaries, let's say, on Netflix, but I'm not making a living doing that,

because otherwise I'd be broke, right? I wouldn't make any money doing that, right? But if I did something that I was good at and made money for that, I can then use that to pursue my hobbies, which is my passions, like I don't think the two have to necessarily be connected if they are, then great.

“But a lot of times it's not, and I think there's a lot of pressure on people, and I think”

to have to do that, because it's so much in the conversation, it's so much in the zi guys. But you know, the funny thing is, I did speak about this. I had a podcast with this guy named, well, I'm sure you guys may have listened to it with Professor Galloway, Proth G, and he's so accurate when he talks about this part, because he says that, you know, if you really talked to the people who are the most successful

people in the world, the multi-billionaires, multi-millionaires, they made their money in metal in the mines, in doing things that aren't very sexy, that aren't the jobs, the sexy entrepreneurial, hatch-taggy things that are googled a bazillion times. These places where they made a lot of money, but it gave them the opportunity with that money to do all these other things that they love to do.

And I think that happens with in real life, I think that happens. I think that we are giving people a sense of false sense of reality when we just say these very overarching, polyanic lines, just follow what you love, and that will be enough. No, it will not. Not always.

It can. But I think a better strategy is to follow where your effort is and see where you're putting in the time, and wherever that is, you will get stronger and better at it, and that should be what you end up doing. Like I said, a lot of times, like we sometimes actually naturally gravitate to the things

I did that with my life and my career, my entire life, and I zigzagged everywhere, right?

I was in fitness, I was in music, I was in sports, I was in media training, but the one through line that I had with everything was that I leaned on the things I was good at, and it took me in a lot of different directions, but I found eventually found my way and

“it evolved over time, and I believe that's what people should do.”

So when they are following their effort, they will notice, and you will notice that that effort is very much usually in line with where your strengths lie anyway. And if we do that, and we follow that, successful follow. I love that.

I think it's really important.

It was going to bring it up on the execution idea episode of the exact opposite thing that we were talking about with really mundane businesses that just crush and do really well and have great execution, like car washes, and those kind of things like that people would consider boring, maybe not someone's passion, but they allow that person to go travel to go do all these things that they want to do to pride for their family, create generational

wealth. It's like insane. It's the award ceremony speech phenomenon is what I used to call it back in the day where

it's like everyone that's this crazy famous actor telling you to chase your dreams and

then they just get all, that's where we get all these sort of starving musician and artists that come to LA and have this delusion that everyone can make it, and listen, if you can't

“live without chasing your passion, okay, fine, but I think a lot of people can.”

Also, the other thing that happens is if your hobby is your work, there can be the case where like you end up not liking your hobby anymore, because it becomes work, it becomes not enjoyable, so you kind of like ruin that pleasure for yourself. So that's a good point. I was going to say, happens to me all the time.

It happens to me so many, so when I was hardcore in the fitness business, like I was like really doing a lot of personal training, and I was doing that hour after hour, because I went into that, you know, I quit all these other career paths, and then I followed fitness, and then what happened was I got burned out, and I ended up not liking it anymore, because I made my passion, and my hobby, my actual career, I was really tired of it.

I got super burned out, and I ended up leaving it for a bunch of years, and went into media training, because I just, like, didn't want to work out anymore. Like, the one thing I loved the most in life was exercise and fitness and movement, and when I was doing it as my career, it became so too much for me, where I was like, I'm over this. I'm like, you know, peace out. I'm going to do something different, and I did

that for many years, but then I got back into the health and fitness space. I reintroduced it to my life in a different way, not the way I was, I thought my passion was, right?

“I thought, because I loved to work out, but if I just work out with people, that's what”

I should be doing. But really, I took that idea, and I rigged it, and I loved the business of fitness, and figured out a way to work within the, the confines of fitness and health and all that other things and wellness, but in a different way that was something I was suited for where I kept on, like, leaning into, because that was where I was naturally, I naturally gravitated to the different businesses that I could build within the fitness business, and

not do it as the daily workout situation. So I just feel like I'm a big believer in chasing what you want, but I'm also a big believer in chasing what you're good at, because that will follow what you want. They're very connected. What you're good at and what you want, they're very closely tied. Yeah, doing what you're good at can help you get what you want. Doing what you're good at can absolutely get you with what you want, and not, like, just

because you love fishing and just because you love video games, that's your passion, your love swimming, whatever it is, leave that as your hobby and your passion. That's okay. And I promise you, you'll be able to do those things more if you lean into what you're actually good at to for the other stuff. I like that. That was great. It's good. Bye. Thank you.

Thank you.