[tartoran]

I find passion and fascination leading to a drive to learn better, faster or quicker, depending on the personality. But I harvesting passion in commercial settings is quite disingenuous. Some people don't have that passion and do quite well, they are in fact very rational and calculated and that is a good thing in some ways as well as those who are more passionate about more abstract things, there is room for quite a variety of types of people and they should all be given freedom to use their own qualities and not be forced to fake qualities that they don't have or are unwilling to share with others.

[wpietri]

I think perhaps words are getting in the way. I don't think passion and reason are contradictory. I think they're complimentary. Competitive chess might be a good example. And plenty of people here are both passionate about various technical topics, but still are very rational about them.

I agree that people shouldn't fake qualities. But neither do I think everybody will be equally good at every job. E.g., I can do sales, but I just don't like it. I'll just never be as good at it as somebody who really enjoys the work.