"If you are not passionate about programming, you must keep looking for your passion." Where exactly is this rule writ? It's certainly a dominant current myth,

"If you are not passionate about programming, you must keep looking for your passion." Where exactly is this rule writ? It's certainly a dominant current myth, but it seems to me to be responsible for a lot of dissatisfaction and the occasional success. There is no preestablished harmony between the individual and this particular temporary political economy. The latter may or may not provide the facilities to indulge an individual in their "passion" (if they have one, which again isn't foreordained). By all means if you can work at something you love, why wouldn't you? But most people probably never will, and to expect everyone to aspire to being exceptional is a demonstrated recipe for disaster.