"My assumption is that… if I can spend three hours and work on it a day, and I don't know where that time went, maybe the reader will like it too."
—Stephen King

great writers first write about things that make them come alive. I’ve never heard of a great writer writing about things they don’t enjoy, but that they think an audience will.

“What is most personal is most universal.” —Carl R. Rogers

Our interest is based on the wisdom of our cumulative life experiences

if we’re not passionate enough about something that we are able to consistently give a significant amount of time to it, then we shouldn’t try to do it.

I’m passionate about a lot of things, but the things I ended up being really good at were the things I found myself putting effort into.
—Marc Cuban

Fascinations: Things that capture our attention and get us to click

Curiosities: Things that we explore over days

Passions: Things we explore over months

Callings: Thing we commit to over years and even decades

the Lindy Effect also applies to my passions. In other words, I’ve found that the best ways to identify my calling is to look for my oldest passions that have persisted for decades.