You know how everyone talks about "finding your passion" like it's some treasure map leading to guaranteed happiness? What if passion is just a side effect, not the cause?

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the most interesting people I know just… *do* things. They build stuff, they try stuff, they fail a lot. And *then* they get passionate about the parts that actually work. It’s almost like passion follows competence, not the other way around. We’re taught to wait for the spark, but m