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Follow Your Passion

Name: Follow Your Passion
Uploaded: 2026-03-08T08:00:00+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this concise monologue, the speaker challenges the popular mantra “follow your passion, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” He recounts how his…

8 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise monologue, the speaker challenges the popular mantra “follow your passion, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” He recounts how his love of fitness led him to start a gym, expand to multiple locations, license the concept to thousands, and eventually sell the business to private equity. Thirteen years later, he still owns a gym but deliberately keeps it member‑less because he prefers to work out himself rather than run a gym business again. The takeaway is that it’s perfectly acceptable to keep passions as personal pursuits while treating work as a separate, pragmatic endeavor.

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If you follow your passion, you'll never work another day in your life. False. I was told to get into starting gyms because I was into fitness, and then I started a gym, and then I started more gyms, and then I started licensing gyms to thousands of locations, and I sold that to private equity. And now, 13 years later, I now have a gym and I have no members because I like working out, and I'm not starting a gym business again. I just want to work out. And so Maybe the moral of the story is you can just have passions be passions and you can have work be work. And I think that's totally okay.