Passion Practices Beware of your passion becoming obsessive. This happens when you become less passionate about doing an activity than you are about achieving external results and the validation that comes from doing that activity. When you are obsessively passionate, your sense of self becomes fused with the external results of your work. No amount of success is enough. If you crave external validation, you’ll always want more: more money, more fame, more followers. Behavioral scientists call this cycle of endless desire hedonic adaptation. Long before that, the Buddha called this suffering.
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