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Should You Follow Your Passion? [Anne-Laure Le Cunff]

The Examined Life

CHAPTER

The Importance of Passion

I think it comes back to this question of these kind of overachievers, ambitious people. I think that many people, and I'll pull myself in this category, who are very driven and very motivated, it comes from a sense of lack. So they don't feel like they're inherently good, or inherently enough. The starting point is broken. And so every other path you take doesn't fix a broken starting point. We're going to take an introspective turn here.

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