If your passion is writing screenplays, it might be because you grew up in a world where there were movies—no one was born to win an Oscar four hundred years ago. Plenty of kids in Cleveland dream of being a pro baseball player, yet few say that their passion is to grow up to be a blacksmith. We’re not born with a specific passion, it is produced based on what we encounter and what’s expected, even if we can’t put the strategy into words. It might be that our actual purpose is simply to be of use, to be productive and to make a difference. In other words, to have an elegant strategy. The
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