Robert Greene - To not follow your passion in life is a...

Don’t follow your passion, follow your talent.

“Here’s a case where someone successfully followed their passion,” they say, “therefore ‘follow your passion’ must be good advice.” This is faulty logic. Observing a few instances of a strategy working does not make it universally effective.

"If you want to find your vision, follow your passion. The less your work feels like work, the closer you are getting."

When Joseph Campbell uttered his famous maxim, “Follow your bliss,” he was speaking a partial truth. It is important to follow your bliss, and it can take courage, but if that’s all you do, you’ll just get blissed out. From a spiritual perspective, it can be more valid to say, “Follow your fear.” But similarly, if that’s all you do, you’ll just get

insecure. If you don’t have a clear passion and somebody blithely tells you to go follow your passion, I think you have the right to give that person the middle finger. Because that’s like somebody telling you that all you need in order to lose weight is to be thin, or all you need in order to have a great sex life is to be multiorgasmic: That does

“follow your bliss”

“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”