Finding Your Passion is Only Step One. Step Two Matters More.
Beyond the shit sandwich, here’s what to ask yourself
This is not a lecture about effort.
Or commitment. Or consistency. Or building atomic habits. Or showing up when it rains.
It’s about going beyond the well-worn question “what am I passionate about?” to the real secret of creating a fulfilling life.
It’s about sitting yourself down, and asking a longer, more uncomfortable — but way more important — question.
A question that will reveal — like it or not — who you are at your core.
Sandwiches and things
If you’ve travelled the self-help loop for any length of time, you’ll know all about the proverbial Shit Sandwich.
It’s the invention of Mark Manson (of The Subtle Power of Not Giving a Fuck fame) who writes that “everything sucks some of the time,” that every pursuit comes with its own “brand of shit sandwich, its own lousy side effects.”
In her book Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert takes his idea a step further, saying you just have to decide what sort of suckage you’re willing to deal with.
