There was a lively discussion on BigFatPurse.com when I posted an article, Why Following Your Passion is Bad Advice. Most readers disagreed with what I talked about – you should only pursue your passion as a career if you are good in it and people will pay you for it. The main disagreement was that passion should not require monetary incentive. I supposed I did not explain how I see passion and this post is to add clarity by defining ‘passion’ in my context.

There were many things I have pursued but given up. One of them was soccer. Since Primary 4, I was very passionate about soccer, despite my mother’s discouragement. I played many hours of football on a daily basis. I continued to play excessively through my Secondary and Junior College days, only to reduce the commitment to the activity in University and beyond. I was good ...