Bridger PenningtonFund Launch & Investment Expert

WORST Business Advice I’ve Ever Received😳

8 May 2025 · 1 min

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Bridger Pennington argues that "follow your passion" is bad advice. He shares how passion actually develops from competence, not the other way around, using his discovery of a passion for building business frameworks as proof.

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I think some of the worst business or financial advice I ever received was follow your passions. And that really was a conundrum in my brain for a long time. So I was in school, I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. And I'm like, okay, what am I passionate about? Skiing. I love going boating with my friends. I like to eat. For a long time, I was like, okay, how do I figure out a career around my passions? And later on, I started business stuff. I just did other things. And I was like, I'm all of a sudden passionate about building out like these really cool frameworks inside of a business. That's something I wouldn't be passionate about when I was 19 years old, but I grew a passion for it or a love for it because I felt like I was good at it. Generally speaking, I think humans like what they're good at.