Regarding the monetized thing: there's a special point with that. You can have all the passion in the world for a thing, but is your passion about how OTHER PEO

Regarding the monetized thing: there's a special point with that. You can have all the passion in the world for a thing, but is your passion about how OTHER PEOPLE react to that? If so, monetizing can be your passion, but the way other people react to a thing is not that thing, it's a separate thing. I know that in my line of work I can get passionate about plenty of ideas, but there's no real correlation between what keeps me going, and what clicks with a mass audience. One of the things that clicks with the mass audience is that I'm there seeking out really quirky, specialized things that might possibly result in something amazing. In that sense the mass audience is more interested in me being passionate, than in every specific thing I'm being passionate about. Bit like a zoo. Watch the tiger code widgets! If the tiger codes an amazing, saleable widget, that's a real marketing story, but people will still be curious and watch even if the widgets don't suit them. If the tiger thinks every widget is gonna be a hit, he's going to burn out and quit in despair.