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Do not use a sentence beginning “I am passionate about...” to describe yourself. I for one mentally substitute “insecure about” and I strongly suspect I’m not the only one
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“Passionate” to me is now unbreakably associated with frantic signaling and unsustainable levels of over-motivated underachievement, scenesterism, grifts, hustles... Spikes of explosive theatrical activity that peter out and turn into depressed abandonment and derelict projects.
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Not that there’s any good reason to market yourself to me since I have no jobs or investments to dole out, but... What I actually like to know about a new acquaintance is what they’re patient about. Steady, quiet, indefatigability. A thing you’d plug away at for 20 years.
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It’s next door to popular terms next door to “passionate” like “gritty” and “relentless” but I look for a gentler trait. A whole ‘Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption’ energy. When I spot that, I feel comfortable building off it.
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I hear you. I started dancing when I was 5, went to professional training from 9 to 19, then worked as a dancer for over 15 years. Dance have been a life companion to me for two thirds of my life. "Passion" or "grit" just doesn't cut it.
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