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Stop Chasing Passion | Bridger Pennington

27 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Bridger Pennington argues against chasing passion as your primary goal. He uses NBA Finals MVP Nikola Jokić as an example, suggesting you should instead become excellent at something that generates income, then use that money to fund what you actually love.

So Nikola Jokic just won the MVP of the Finals for the NBA, plays for the Denver Nuggets. He's from Serbia, I think. Serbia. Yeah. And anyway, they interviewed him after the game.
I'm curious what you are feeling right now and if you're looking forward to a parade coming up in Denver.
When is parade?
Thursday.
No, I need to go home. On Sundays I have my horse racing in my— Horse racing. Horse racing.
I was going to get to that. The horse racing. Crap, I got to get back to Serbia. I got to go ride horses. Here's the point.
He's great at basketball, but I don't know if he even freaking is deeply passionate, loves it. He's just freaking great at it. So, here's the moral of the story. You can generate cash, maximize your income doing whatever it is you do. Get great at it. Be the best. But then take that cash, stay humble, go get passionate about all your asset building. Yeah. And even if you're not passionate about the asset building, like the stuff that you do, you're passionate about the cash that it provides to go ride your horses and go do the things that you like to do. So, in other words, the whole like just chase your passion thing, I think is the wrong advice.