Passion Requires Slow Cultivation

Forget divine blasts of inspiration and fantasies of specialness. A slow slog toward mastery has unmatched gifts that you won't recognize until you commit.

Seashore (1969) by Helen Lundeberg

Many of the passions we pursue serve functions we don’t understand. We think that we’re seeking a new kind of life, a new kind of identity. We want to become a new kind of person — a better, more impressive, more fulfilled, more attractive human. But it’s often the side effects or even the mechanics of these pursuits th…