'The Quiet Passion': Is This Where Your Purpose Has Been Hiding All Along?
Finding your passion is a sloppy business—but this might help
You ever feel like an old, crinkled up plastic grocery bag?
You know, HOLLOW—without any soft pretzels in it? 🥨 (If there are no soft pretzels in your metaphorical grocery bag, well, you should probably have a good, hard look at your life.)
Last week, we talked about The Shallow Hustle, when you’re busy, but the work doesn’t add up to anything greater, and you’re left holding a big, fat existential crisis in your hand. (Like a cigar, but it’s wet and it’s dripping all over your shoes.) But then of course, you’re all like: well, what if I don’t have anything that I DEEPLY CARE ABOUT?
Enter what I call: The Quiet Passion.
I am not referencing a cake, though how good would this one be? Definitely red velvet, definitely layered with something outrageous, like root beer. Honestly, have we ever tried root beer & chocolate? This cannot be bad.
Rather, The Quiet Passion is a new theory I’ve got about work and how people tap into their real passions—rather than all of the fluffy, Hollywood-style ones we all try out when we’re young, only to be disappointed.
What are Hollywood passions? 🎥
Hollywood passions are the ones that are sold to us as THE DREAM (except maybe you’re discovering that it’s not really your dream?????).
Starting a travel blog (but planning trips stresses you out, and you actually hate airports).
Opening a café (but you hate early mornings and, um, people).
Becoming a novelist (but you don’t like writing alone for hours on end).
Being a fashion designer (but sewing and production logistics bore you to tears).
Owning a bookstore (but you prefer reading books over running a business).
Being a YouTuber (but you hate being on camera and editing videos).
Becoming an artist (but only if you magically wake up good at it without years of practice).
Hollywood passions sound great in theory but don’t hold up when you actually do the work. The Quiet Passion, though—that’s where the real magic gets down with its bad self.
The Quiet Passion is not the loud, showy, look-at-me-I’m-FABULOUS kind of passion: it’s the quiet, invisible one operating behind the scenes without you even knowing it. It’s the real underlying factor behind why you’re attracted to The Hollywood Passion in the first place. (Even if you never would have ever thought of it!)
I am convinced that understanding this is the key to finally finding your Grown Up Purpose™️: all of that meaning and depth and fulfilling satisfaction you’re supposed to have found with your work by now. (But haven’t.)
It’s probably not obvious.
It’s probably not even on your radar, right now.
And, it’s definitely not going to rush right up to you and pull down your pants and go *smack!*.
But, it’s been there all along—woven into the tiny things you keep coming back to, the work you do when no one’s watching, the part of the dream you actually love when the fantasy fades.
Let me tell you how this works and where to find *your* Quiet Passion—and how it might very well change your career trajectory forever. (Especially if you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning for years.)