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Is passion necessary for entrepreneurs?

Hi, I'm Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today, I'm coming to you from Monterey Bay, out here on a beach house as well on the back porch, trying to keep a little quiet. Everyone's gone into bed relatively early tonight.

I've got this little card from this deck of icebreakers that I've mentioned earlier and they got great questions on them.

So I just pull these up once in a while, and it brings up a topic and always find a way to somehow tie it to you and your business and so forth.

This is a good one, I like this, what activity do you enjoy so much, that it makes you lose track of time?

And, that reminds me of passion?

That reminds me that there's a common question that gets thrown around a lot, which is, you know, what would you do?

Even if you weren't paid to do it type of thing for money or if you're making money in something that you enjoy, what would you still do even if they stopped paying you.

It all revolves around that idea of passion, and whether you have a passion in what you're doing. And when you're talking to new entrepreneurs, you get different people saying, you know, you got to go towards your passion, you got to build a business around something you're passionate about. And that's the magic part, right?

I've got a little moth flying around here. So if you see him don't get too thrown off. And for those you watch it on video, but is that true or is that not true?

And here's, here's my take on it, I don't go one way or the other on this because you can have a business that you're passionate about that you are passionate about it before you turned it into a business.

Or you could have a business that you weren't passionate about. Whether you're passionate enough about what you're passionate about it or not, I think is relatively irrelevant.

I don't think it has anything to do with whether the business is going to succeed or not. The only thing that passion adds to it is that you're going to stay focused longer, possibly because you're passionate about it.

But on the other hand, here's the downside, if you're passionate, if you're too passionate about something before you start a business about it.

That emotionality that you may have any attachment that you have, regarding the details of your business can cause you to make wrong decisions when it comes to your business.

Not being objective in your business can make a it can destroy your business.

So if you care a bit too much, if you're a bit too emotional about the details of your business, then you'll be less likely to cut out certain areas of your business, or change certain areas of your business, when the business dictates that that's necessary.

What dictates that oftentimes it's the market.

So it's not as much about what you're passionate about. But what the marketplace is passionate about. If you have a shared passion, then yeah, that can go in a great direction as long as there is a need for what it is that your brain to the marketplace. Is there a group of people that love something that you love?

And can you be objective enough to it, that you can that you can go somewhere with it, that you can actually build a business out of it and you aren't going to be so...