I wanted to come back and prevent this being read as "follow your passion."
When thinking about careers, the goal is to find where your passion produces things that are valuable to other people. You want to avoid maximizing passion exclusively. IMO you want to maximize both passion and value created simultaneously. It makes the problem harder but it's still tractable.
If it helps, another way to think about this is finding something
people want
that's hard for people to get
that you can imagine you can, eventually, provide relatively easily
I wanted to come back and prevent this being read as "follow your passion."
When thinking about careers, the goal is to find where your passion produces things that are valuable to other people. You want to avoid maximizing passion exclusively. IMO you want to maximize both passion and value created simultaneously. It makes the problem harder but it's still tractable.
If it helps, another way to think about this is finding something