"Follow your passion"
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Follow your passion sounds like a reckless dare until you notice the quiet wisdom inside it. Passion is the energy that keeps you curious when outcomes are uncertain, the fire that makes hard work feel less like sacrifice and more like belonging. The imperative to follow is not a command to leap blindly; it is an invitation to let that energy be your compass, not your entire map. It points, you still chart, adjust, and choose.
Coming from Joel Siegel, the longtime Good Morning America film critic known for his wit and warmth, the advice resonates as lived experience rather than slogan. Siegel built a career around loving movies and translating that love for audiences. He also faced illness and wrote movingly to his son about what matters most. In that light, follow your passion reads as a plea to spend your limited time on what makes you vividly alive, and to share that aliveness with others.
There is a trap in the phrase if taken as a guarantee. Passion on its own does not pay the rent or build expertise. Most people do not discover a single blazing calling and then ride it to effortless success. More often, passion deepens after you commit, practice, and see your work help someone. The better reading is to orient toward what fascinates you, then pair it with craft, service, and patience. Let curiosity pick the direction; let discipline and feedback carry you forward.
Practically, this can mean starting small: carve time for the work that lights you up, ship something, learn, repeat. Notice the parts of your day that feel electric and lean toward them. Honor constraints without surrendering the thread that makes you feel most yourself.
Siegel spent a life amplifying stories that mattered to him. Follow your passion is his way of saying: do not outsource your aliveness. Let what you love lead, and do the daily work that keeps you on its trail.
Coming from Joel Siegel, the longtime Good Morning America film critic known for his wit and warmth, the advice resonates as lived experience rather than slogan. Siegel built a career around loving movies and translating that love for audiences. He also faced illness and wrote movingly to his son about what matters most. In that light, follow your passion reads as a plea to spend your limited time on what makes you vividly alive, and to share that aliveness with others.
There is a trap in the phrase if taken as a guarantee. Passion on its own does not pay the rent or build expertise. Most people do not discover a single blazing calling and then ride it to effortless success. More often, passion deepens after you commit, practice, and see your work help someone. The better reading is to orient toward what fascinates you, then pair it with craft, service, and patience. Let curiosity pick the direction; let discipline and feedback carry you forward.
Practically, this can mean starting small: carve time for the work that lights you up, ship something, learn, repeat. Notice the parts of your day that feel electric and lean toward them. Honor constraints without surrendering the thread that makes you feel most yourself.
Siegel spent a life amplifying stories that mattered to him. Follow your passion is his way of saying: do not outsource your aliveness. Let what you love lead, and do the daily work that keeps you on its trail.
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