Passion is a lie. What I've learned about passion...

Passion is overrated—or at least an unnecessary limiting factor in a way.

Let me explain with my personal story.

In my life until now, I’ve become passionate about things the more I learned about them. Building websites, building apps, sharing stuff online, etc. Those are all the things I merely thought would be interesting, but I wasn't passionate about it, so to say. The feeling of passion came when I started learning more about it and giving it a shot. I gave it a shot, and then I started enjoying it.

There are also things which I thought I'd be passionate about, but after doing it, I realized I don't enjoy it. For example, writing threads on Twitter. In the beginning when I discovered the idea of building an audience on Twitter, writing threads there was a sure shot way as people suggested, and I thought I'd love doing it. However, after doing it for months, I had a feeling it didn't stick, but I refused to admit it for a long time. Finally, I realized it's something not for me. I discovered I love sharing stuff online, but writing threads for capturing attention is not my game.

The thing is - If I refused to explore or dive in on something just because I thought I didn’t feel passion already, I’d never go deeper on anything. I would have never given it the chance to find if it's something I'd be passionate about or not. So give everything a chance. Be an explorer and explore as many things as possible.

There's something I heard Ankur Warikoo say which really resonated with me. The idea is that your 20s should be mostly spent on exploring as many things as possible. Learning, discovering things you think you won't like. Only by doing that, you will give a chance to all the possibilities of your life and discover what are the multiple paths you can choose to go to.

Your 30s should be spent doubling down on those things.