3516: Screw Finding Your Passion by Mark Manson on How to Prioritize Life

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3516: Mark Manson dismantles the myth of “finding your passion” by arguing that passion isn’t something to be discovered, it’s already there, hidden in what you naturally gravitate toward. The real obstacle isn’t a lack of passion but fear, expectations, and misplaced priorities. Instead of endlessly searching, start doing what excites you, even if it doesn’t seem practical at first. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://markmanson.net/screw-finding-your-passion Quotes to ponder: “If you have to look for what you’re passionate about, then you’re probably not passionate about it at all.” “The problem isn’t passion. It’s never passion. It’s priorities.” “A child does not walk onto a playground and say to herself, ‘How do I find fun?’ She just goes and has fun.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7	This is Optimal Living Daily. Screw finding your passion by Mark Manson of markmanson.net.
0:38.7	And I'm JustinaMollick.
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0:57.1	So with that, let's get right to it and continue optimizing your life.
1:05.6	Screw Finding Your Passion by Mark Manson of markmanson.net.
1:10.4	Remember back when you were a kid, you would just do things. You never thought to yourself,
1:12.4	what are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football? You just ran around the
1:18.0	playground and played baseball and football. You built sandcastles and played tag and asked silly
1:24.3	questions and looked for bugs and dug up grass and pretended you were a sewer
1:29.8	monster. Nobody told you to do it. You just did it. You were led merely by your curiosity and
1:36.5	excitement. And the beautiful thing was if you hated baseball, you just stopped playing it. There's
1:42.3	no guilt involved. There was no arguing or debate. Either
1:46.3	liked it or you didn't. And if you loved looking for bugs, you just did that. There's no second
1:52.2	level analysis of, well, is looking for bugs really what I should be doing with my time as a child?
1:58.4	Nobody else wants to look for bugs. Does that mean there's something wrong with me?
2:02.6	How will looking for bugs affect my future prospects? There was no bullshit. If you like something,
2:08.9	you just did it. How do I find my passion? Today I received approximately the 11,504th email this year from a person telling me that
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