[daleharvey]

you can learn to be confident

and as for "be passionate", I dont see if as something you learn, but if you arent passionate and realise that is an important fact, you can redirect your efforts to something you are passionate about.

[joe_the_user]

"you can learn to be confident"

I agree and if you give someone detailed, effective directions on how to do that learning, you may have indeed authentically given them good advice.

But if you only tell to "be confident" then you haven't really given them the details they can use for anything.

[gcheong]

I think the idea that everyone has some thing that they are deeply passionate about is rather flawed. I think it's nice to have it but it's not necessary and nobody should let it stop them if they don't.

[netcan]

What you say makes sense, but I'm not sure it applies to people. People can decide to believe things, why can't they decide to be passionate?

[cubix]

Passion isn't a belief, it's an emotion -- just like you can't simply decide to be happy, sad, or afraid.