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I don't know that I've found things which I'm passionate about as much as I've found things I enjoy, or which intrigue me, and I pursue obsessively competitively in order to excel. Whatever it is, I become fairly skilled at it, through sheer determination, persistence, and immersion, then for one reason or another I move on - no financial reward, I find the point where genes separate the men from the boys, etc. I'm a programmer for a living. I enjoy doing my own programming, not so much work programming, but partly do it simply because I've been doing it since the zx81 - "... if you're warm and happy in a pile of crap, keep your mouth shut" - or something. The Helsinki Bus Theory seems worth mentioning in this conversation: https://jamesclear.com/stay-on-the-bus .