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Originally Posted by Shamou  Maybe it's just me... or maybe we have a confusion in the semantic... but I feel that I could get passionate about anything that is important enough to warrant the effort...
The way that I would do that is...
1. Attach great importance to whatever I want to be passionate about...
2. Adopt the position that "state control" (being able to get passionate whenever I want too) is essential to self-mastery and that self-mastery is the ultimate mastery... or the peak of self-development....
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If you
want to be passionate about something, aren't you already passionate about it? And if you're not, then the question is - why make yourself? Why not get passionate about something that comes naturally?
It's another story if you need to get something done in order to achieve some higher purpose. Then you can make yourself enthusiastic about doing this particular task. E.g., I need to do lots of data collection, data entry, checking and re-checking etc. to write a research paper. And I can do those things enthusiastically. But I wouldn't say I'm passionate about data entry itself, but rather research, knowledge gain, being creative etc.