Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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Waking Up Every Morning with Ease

The level of ease required for us to wake up every morning to head to school or work is largely influenced by the amount of passion burning within us. If you’re passionless you’re bound to get out of bed with great difficulty and the reason is simple - having nothing to look forward to. I used to be just like that but once the fire lit up, things got a lot better.

Passion is the basis of healthy and satisfactory living. More importantly it breeds motivation. Without passion, learning is dry, even boring, and daily tasks require a huge amount of effort to complete.

Imagine doing what you do but with an added twist - enjoyment. If you can’t imagine the possibility, then you don’t know what you’re missing.

The Energy for the Steep Uphill Journey

Why push a huge rock uphill on an empty stomach if you can do so with one that isn’t? Why go through that pain everyday when there’s another better option? Fusing passion into your life can do wonders and provide you with a strong sense of purpose. Soon, you could be running downhill trying to catch up with the rock quickly rolling ahead of you instead of you suffering as you push it.

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When you’re passionate about something you can sit down all day for long continuous hours doing it and still love it. Ask any musician or writer how and when they made their best artistic creations and hear what they say. It’s when they pour their heart into the process.

Imagine a salesman promoting a product to you with zero enthusiasm. And even when they fake it, most notice. The best salesmen are those who believe in what they’re selling and promote it with enthusiasm - with passion. Great organizations are also mostly those with passionate employees. They’re innovative and creative. Believe it!

A study by Harvard Business School based on 22 years of breakthrough research was conducted with a powerful objective in mind:

To discover strategies for activating employees’ deep passion for specific challenges and activities to enhance creative thinking in the workplace.

Indeed, passion is a powerful thing. A whole world of possibilities exists if you only choose to walk down the path I’m trying to show you.

It’s Not Your Fault

We are all born with passion within us. It’s the systems that kill it. The environments and social constructs we grow up in are not naturally designed to reinforce and nurture it.

Truth be told, highly successful people all have one primary thing in common – passion. It’s the fire in their belly and the powerful drive that pushes them forward no matter what barriers face them.

With out passion you don’t have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
- Donald Trump

Mediocre people with average dreams and ambitions don’t really require passion. They’re not happily pushing a heavy load, let alone pushing it upwards on a steep hill. It’s those who embark on long and challenging journeys that do.

If you want to be successful without being passionate, I highly doubt you will be. If you want to be ordinary then you won’t need it much but there’s still no harm in nurturing it.

Either way, a life with no purpose, a life without passion isn’t a life truly lived. You don’t deserve that.