“Don’t follow your passion; follow your effort." - - -
Mark Cuban
It seems counter to what we were told as children. Following one's passion would lead to success. The idea is that if you are passionate about something, your effort to accomplish it would be an easy.
Following one's passion seems like common sense approach to life.
Anything arousing enthusiasm is supposed to be a good thing. But passion is an emotion.
Effort is a vigorous attempt to accomplish a result.
A good example of this would be a student who wants to be an artist. She loves to draw, color and paint. It comes natural to her. But she does have the will to go out, ambition to make the rounds, or put in the long hours to get employed or meet deadlines in order to make her passion her career.
Effort is not considered an important personal tool. Technology has made productivity easy (you can look up anything on a search engine and cut and paste a report.) Smartphone addiction has made people lazy zombies who can easily waste hours doing mindless things.
Effort requires concentration, attention to detail and focus. Only experience can drive people to attain excellence in their chosen goals.
