I Think Passion As Humanity's Driving Force Is Widely Misunderstood. Like Sure, People Driven By Their

I think passion as humanity's driving force is widely misunderstood. Like sure, people driven by their love and passion for what they do have made more individual advances to art and sciences than people driven by milder, more rational motives, but claiming that passion is the most efficient driver for human progress would be like claiming that the water-cooled 7.7mm Vickers medium machine gun is the most efficient way to heat water for tea. That's really just not how it works, and thank goodness it isn't.

Most people just don't have that kind of a passion. That's a good thing. Most people don't have six fingers, either, and not being born with an unusual quirk doesn't mean that you're lacking or incomplete. You're lucky if you don't, because most of the time, the successful people who were driven there by passion for what they do are a not a fair selection, it's 100% survivor bias.

People who are passionate about one thing and one thing only don't get to choose what they're passionate about. If you ask them, they'll tell you they wouldn't trade their own thing for anything else in the world, and of course they wouldn't - just like a parent in a birth ward being handed their own baby wouldn't trade that one for any other baby in the world. It's special and you love this one because this one is yours.

And having something you're passionate about doing means you can't be stopped from doing it. Even you can't stop yourself from doing it. Even if it isn't useful, if it isn't productive, if it isn't profitable, your tracks still can't get turned any other way. If your passion cannot be turned into a career, the best that a therapist can do is get you to grudgingly agree it's best to get a day job that you don't care about so you can do the one thing you want to do on your free time.

The people with a passionate fixation on hard sciences, who become astrophycisists or theoretical mathematicians purely because they are passionate about doing it are rare outliers. Not equally rare, but far lesser known ones, are porn artists. Not even shitting you - there seems to be an absolutely bizarre amount of them out there who originally started drawing because they personally happened to have a fetish so bizarrely niche and specific that they couldn't find any porn of it, and saw no other choice than to draw it themselves. And then cultivated remarkable skills over the years, because they fucking love drawing that one specific thing.

Anyway, I have theories about the sources of the remarkable amounts of money that clearly frequently exchange hands in the furry community.