You need to be passionate about what you're doing, if you want to be truly great. That doesn't necessarily mean change what you're doing, it could mean just change the way you view it.
A passionless life is just a slow march towards death.
A passionless life is just a slow march towards death.
I believe you need discipline as the engine and passion as the steering wheel
Yes, putting energy and "passion" into your unique abilities may enable you to reach your potential. And perhaps ultimately decide whether this particular mutation was worthwhile, in the long run.
But if you think "purpose" has some mystical meaning, and judge your existence on achieving it... Passion has evolved only as means to an end, and is not worth glorifying. Not any more than you'd glorify "hunger" or "pain" or "pride".
It's an optimization technique in the rat race called "evolution".