Ari Paul  ⛓️Ovjeren akaunt

2/ As an example, let's say you're passionate about environmental conservation, love playing jazz with friends, and are also interested in law. How do construct a life out of that?

3/ you could try to be a pro jazz musician and volunteer to clean up the environment on weekends, and read some law books in your spare time. That's likely to be a tough life; very hard to support a family and hobbies as a pro jazz musician.

4/ Instead, you could become an environmental lawyer, and join an amateur or semi-pro jazz group. That would combine all of your interests in a way that's likely fulfilling with some degree of financial security.

5/ for myself, I'm passionate about investing, science, philanthropy, and to a lesser degree, music and athletics. So I'm an investor in a tech heavy field, I donate money/time to charities, and pursue music/athletics as hobbies.

6/ there are many fields that are fundamentally tough to make a living at. Music, athletics, charity, environmental conservation for example. You generally need to be insanely talented and focused to survive in those fields as your primary source of income.

7/ a common saying is that you become an artist only if you can't imagine doing anything else with your life. If that's really your only passion - go for it. But for most of us, we have multiple passions, and so it makes sense to view them as building blocks that we can

8/ mix and match in various ways to construct a fulfilling life.