I spoke last night with my eldest boy, who, at 20 years of age he does not really know what he wants to do in life. Sound familiar? I still do not know what I want to do with my life. Since I was a small boy people have told me "you need to find your passion". As I pondered on this with my son, I thought back to my childhood, playing hide-n-seek, catching tadpoles in the creek and marveling as they grew legs and became frogs, watching Star Trek, playing soccer and riding my skate board. Nobody told me to do these things, I just did them. There was no future analysis of whether I should spend more time on more profitable pursuits. No. All the guidance I needed I already had with my curiosity and spontaneous excitement. If I did not like to play Rugby, I just stopped playing. No shame, no guilt. I just stopped doing it. What I did do, was what I liked doing. And I still do what I like, when I like. This whole "find your passion" idea is a crock. You are doing it now. Just as a child, you would busy yourself with catching snails or kicking a ball, you busy yourself now with what you like. The idea that you need to turn this into a career is a long bow to draw. Why can a person not have a job they like, and a passion they pursue on the side? Me? I was cursed with math from an early age. I have had various jobs, mechanic, photographer, miner, ferry driver. Yet, when I was young I was always tinkering with electronics, and building computers, they fascinated me. I taught myself various computer languages, and eventually fell into programming computers for a job. I used to think that I did it just because I could, but it is more than that. Like a child, I do it because its what I want to do. Tomorrow I may want to build robots, who knows. The point is, you do not need to find your passion. It is right in front of you. If you have to seek out what you are passionate about, you are not going to be passionate about anything. If you look at your life right now, you are already doing things you enjoy, you just need to be conscious of them when you are doing them.