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This seems like a dubious claim, to be honest. Just because someone is passionate about something, I see no reason to believe they are good at it.

I would love to be proven wrong, as I am passionate about many things. However, I find that those that are more practiced are usually far better than simply those that are passionate. There is plenty of survivor bias in this claim, though. So I try not to use it as an indicator of anything.

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>However, I find that those that are more practiced are usually far better than simply those that are passionate.

Passion is the starting point to becoming exceptional.

Ironically, as someone with children, I am more open to the opposite direction. Practice can lead to passion if someone grows the necessary stimulus reward from it. This can continue on to continued practice and can feed to progress.

Or it could lead to a dead end.

this 1000x , as parent with grown up children

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