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<blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9612885" data-attributes="member: 7034611">There are not many jobs where you do only what you enjoy, unless maybe as some kind of artist (and even then there is most likely a lot that comes with it that you do not enjoy, like promotion). You seem to take the most extreme position and equate that with being passionate.I see it the other way around. If you enjoy your job most of the time, like you say, then that is only true because you are interested in a field you are passionate about. If you weren’t, you would enjoy it a lot less than that.Being passionate has nothing to do with it being a dream job to me.passionate &lt;&gt; borderline obsessed, you seem to consider passionate to be a much more extreme thing than I do.To me it means you are interested in the topic and enjoy it, not that you rather do this than anything else and that you barely can stop yourself from doing it all the time.That being said, I don’t think you will ever be excellent at something you do not enjoy, and being passionate certainly increases your enjoyment of a task, so there is a correlation. That doesn’t mean you will be excellent at everything you enjoy or not achieve it at anything you do not enjoy. Discipline plays a large role too (and to a lesser degree talent).Still, I don’t think that most people are excellent at their job, that is a pretty small percentage. Maybe my standards there are higher than yours, unlike on the ‘passionate’ thing</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mamba, post: 9612885, member: 7034611"] There are not many jobs where you do only what you enjoy, unless maybe as some kind of artist (and even then there is most likely a lot that comes with it that you do not enjoy, like promotion). You seem to take the most extreme position and equate that with being passionate. I see it the other way around. If you enjoy your job most of the time, like you say, then that is only true because you are interested in a field you are passionate about. If you weren’t, you would enjoy it a lot less than that. Being passionate has nothing to do with it being a dream job to me. passionate <> borderline obsessed, you seem to consider passionate to be a much more extreme thing than I do. To me it means you are interested in the topic and enjoy it, not that you rather do this than anything else and that you barely can stop yourself from doing it all the time. That being said, I don’t think you will ever be excellent at something you do not enjoy, and being passionate certainly increases your enjoyment of a task, so there is a correlation. That doesn’t mean you will be excellent at everything you enjoy or not achieve it at anything you do not enjoy. Discipline plays a large role too (and to a lesser degree talent). Still, I don’t think that most people are excellent at their job, that is a pretty small percentage. Maybe my standards there are higher than yours, unlike on the ‘passionate’ thing [/QUOTE]

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