An entrepreneur who built a gym chain to 6,000 locations and sold multiple businesses argues that "follow your passion" is useless advice. He now runs a gym with no members that he loves but makes no money from, and says passion is usually just an excuse to avoid hard work.
Chris Rock has a great saying. He says, follow your dreams if they're hiring. You are fooling yourself. You have this idea, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pursue what I'm passionate about, I'm gonna, I'm gonna paint paintings all day. But even then, it's not true. Pursue your passion is only true in the vague and never in the specific. And I only say this as somebody who fucking went all the way with it. I was into fitness and I started the gyms and I scaled the gyms, I did the turnarounds and I I scaled to 6,000 locations. I started a supplement company. I started a software company. Sold all of it to private equity. I did the whole thing. And what do I have today? A gym that has no members. And I love it, but it's not what I make money on. You're using the excuse of passion to disguise your inability to tolerate hardness.
