I have been having a discussion with some friends of mine about this topic and I was actually going to write a blog post about it, but now I would just look lik

I have been having a discussion with some friends of mine about this topic and I was actually going to write a blog post about it, but now I would just look like a tool if I did so. I'll just summarize what I was going to say here. I think passion is generally stupid for a couple reasons. First off, we use it as a defense mechanism. "If I am passionate, I won't care about failure because I'll be doing what I love!" Not only will you have a hard time pivoting or calling it quites all together but this mentality already sets you up for failure on a bunch of other levels. Secondly, how many people have been passionate about their projects that ended up failing? We tell ourselves to be passionate because Zuck was passionate about Facebook or the Groupon guys were passionate about their project, if we're passionate about ours WE CAN'T FAIL! We don't need passion to succeed, we need brains to succeed. Think critically about what you're doing and you'll be way better off then loving your dumb idea into the ground.