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the energy that turns a hobby into a personality and a calling into a crusade
means Feeling or showing strong, intense emotion — especially eagerness, love, or conviction — about someone or something.
from From Latin 'passio,' suffering or enduring, itself from 'pati,' to suffer (the same root that gives us 'patient' and the Passion of Christ). The path runs through Late Latin 'passionatus' and Old French into Middle English. The original sense leaned hard on suffering — a 'passion' was something you underwent, an emotion that seized and pained you — and only later softened into the warmer modern flavor of ardor and zeal. The old logic survives in our sense that to be truly passionate is to be a little overtaken by your feelings rather than calmly in charge of them.
- latin roots
- From 'pati,' to suffer — passion literally means enduring pain
- fruit naming
- Passion fruit named for Christ's passion, not romance
- brain chemistry
- Floods the brain with the same dopamine as cocaine
- work studies
- Passion-driven workers report burnout at higher rates
- musical term
- 'Appassionato' tells musicians to play with raw feeling
muhammad ali boxing style — float like a butterfly sting like a bee strategy in 1964 heavyweight championship fight vs sonny liston