Passion requires that something makes you angry
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Someone told me that he thought that only four of the people presenting showed any passion; I was one, and two of the others were employees of mine. (BTW, one of them - my youngest employee - won the weekend and has just recently graduated from Y-Combinator).
That got me thinking about what passion really is, and I've concluded that it isn't good enough merely to "like" something. There needs to be something about the status quo that you dislike so much that you're willing to work at addressing it, even when sometimes the work is so hard you hate every second.
Thoughts please..
Lots of scientists are passionate about discovery. The lack of knowledge in a certain field doesn't always make them angry. It makes them curious. It makes them feel like they're living in the past.
Ego often makes people passionate. They have a drive to fill a void where self esteem should be. I've seen this many times in business. This doesn't always indicate anger -- it can be anxiety or insecurity instead.
I can probably come up with other examples, but you get my point.