Alex Hormozi
February 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Why "Follow Your Passion" Is Terrible Advice
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Key Takeaways
- 1People want to follow their passion but don't even know what it actually means.
- 2I'm making this point because I recently had a young man tell me he quit his job and went all in on entrepreneurship, but then he didn't like what ...
- 3Here's the big problem: your passion only exists in the vague, not in the specific.
- 4This passion window is very short-lived and only possible as an employee where you stick to doing the same thing every single day within a larger m...
- 5Let me give you an example from my own experience.
Overview
People want to follow their passion but don't even know what it actually means. The root of the word "passion" comes from the Latin "pacio," which means suffering. It's not about doing what you love - it's about finding something that you love enough that it's worth suffering for. The first usage of the word passion came from the passion of Christ, which was literally Jesus Christ's crucifixion story. It's fascinating that this has been bastardized into "following your passion means doing what you love."
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