I am guilty of that as well. When I am passionate it usually mean that I want to scratch an itch. But now I think that passion is something that comes after yo

I am guilty of that as well. When I am passionate it usually mean that I want to scratch an itch. But now I think that passion is something that comes after you put a lot of effort on the subject matter. BTW, I submitted Cuban's post to HN to challenge the notion of passion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4680098 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4680098