Passionate helps you keep going. Curious teaches you thinks you would not know otherwise. Complementary things in my opinion.
What's more important, being passionate or being curious?
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#12I just read something last night that stated "passion without competence is useless." We all hear about pursuing your passions, but we also all probably know at least one person passionate about something they're no good at (someone who can't carry a tune with a passion for singing, for example).
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#13In artificial intelligence there is a well known dilemma that IMO is reflected in the human experience. The dilemma is between exploration (being curious) and exploitation (being passoniate). This article is basically saying "exploration is better than exploitation". Of course, it is far from being that simple. Finding the optimal balance between exploit/explore is not trivial at all.
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#14Curiosity without passion ("suffering") will just lead to very superficial knowledge. Every worthwhile thing you do in life, while it may have initially started as curiosity, will reach a point where there will be some measure of suffering involved for you to progress. Are you curious about math. At some point, you will have to grind through and work out math problems and proofs, and it won't always feel like fun. Ar…
I disagree. Passion is often the enemy of professionalism. Passion leads to superficial knowledge in that passion is narrow and doesn't encompass any field in its entirety.
Duty gets you through, it's the limits of passion that you yourself describe.
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#15curious why i like her so much
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#16This is a rather limited viewpoint which overlooks a lot of other components and factors, such as natural predispositions, what a person enjoys doing, AND what benefits others.
I think the "Ikigai" diagram tells a lot here.
https://www.performanceexcellencenetwork.org/pensights/wp-co...
And in case that link breaks, this google search for similar.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ikigai+diagram
I personally believe in leaving the money component out of it, given what and how our society incentivizes financially. Other than that, I think it's a great philosophy.
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#17I feel like this piece begins with a similar thesis to the Cal Newport book So Good They Can't Ignore You - namely that the ideals and goals around finding your "passion" or "doing what you love" are either setting you up for dissatisfaction ("I don't love what I do, therefore I am a failure") or disappointment ("my passion is writing but I became a software engineer instead of a novelist and now I am unfulfilled").…
I think that mastering any random skill can be fun, and can help with expanding the horizons, but it's a waste of time to do it just because you can get paid for it. Time is not money, time is infinitely more valuable than money, and trading it away in order to spend that time building someone else's dream is a terrible bargain.
Everyone has something that they can do better than anyone else, and give something to the world that no one else can, and that's the best direction to put most of one's effort into.
In a healthy society, it might be prudent to factor money into it as well, I've found it leading me down all kinds of wrong and fucked up roads, where I was making "good money" and was "good at my job" but felt miserable as fuck all the time.
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#18Asks the curious person . . .