Charlie Munger on Passion

“I have never succeeded very much in anything in which I was not very interested. If you can’t find something, I don’t think you’ll succeed very much, even if you’re fairly smart. I think that having this deep interest in something is part of the game. If your only interest is Chinese calligraphy I think that’s what you’re going to have to do. I don’t see how you can succeed in astrophysics if you’re only interested in calligraphy.” - Charlie Munger

“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” - Steve Jobs

Many people are attracted to investing because of wrong reasons like expensive cars etc. If we look at successful people long-term investors, we will find that they are driven by intellectual challenge that investing possess with wealth being an effect of that process and not other way around.

Passion fulfills our lives and not money or recognition.