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the chemical lie your brain tells to make you do impossible things
means An intense, often consuming emotion — be it love, desire, enthusiasm, or fervor — that drives a person toward something with overwhelming force.
from From Latin 'passio,' meaning 'suffering' or 'enduring,' itself from the verb 'pati,' 'to suffer.' The word entered English through Old French in the medieval era, first describing the suffering of Christ on the cross — the 'Passion.' Only later did it widen from agony to the broader ache of strong feeling, keeping a hidden thread of pain at its core: every passion still carries the old sense that to feel deeply is, in some way, to suffer.
- latin root
- means suffering, from passio — to endure
- passion fruit
- named by missionaries for Christ's wounds
- brain chemistry
- early passion mimics OCD on brain scans
- the passions
- originally meant emotions overpowering reason
- burnout link
- high passion predicts the hardest crashes
passion play oberammergau — bavarian village's 10-year cycle performance of christ's life since 1634, draws 500,000 visitors
the passion bach — j.s. bach's st. matthew and st. john passions, composed early 1700s, choral masterworks