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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully it’s the right forum.
What happens to these people? Those who claim to have “passions” but are very low effort and therefore no success and then are either bad at it or move on to other things. I know a few young people who are like that. What’s your experience? Do they mature and become good at something? Or do they drift through life, hanging by a thread? 
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It’s interesting to look at young people who talk about having passions but never quite translate that enthusiasm into real progress. On the surface it seems like a failure of discipline. But if you examine it more closely, it often has less to do with effort and more to do with timing and environment.

A lot of people don’t discover what they’re good at through a straight line. They experiment. They quit. They drift. It can look like low commitment, but it’s actually a search process. Humans are not very good at predicting what will hold their attention over the long term. We only find out by trying things and watching what sticks.

The ones who eventually excel usually stumble into the right conditions. They meet someone who believes in them. They fall into a workplace that rewards their particular quirks. They encounter a constraint that forces them to focus. What looks like maturity is often just the moment when someone’s abilities finally intersect with the right context.

And yes, some people drift longer than others. But drifting is not the same as being lost. It can be a prelude to competence. Many adults who seem highly directed now spent their early years bouncing between half-formed interests. Their eventual success came from discovering the ecosystem that made sustained effort feel possible.

In other words, the outcome depends less on the passion itself and more on the situation that gives that passion a place to grow.[/quote]

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