Thanks to my dad, I have never been stuck believing that I had to like something in order to commit myself to it. When I was nine years old, I remember watching him working in the yard, picking up pecans, sticks, and leaves and stuffing them into a trash bag. He was doing it so attentively and precisely that it appeared to me that he loved every second of it. I asked him, “Dad, do you like doing that?” He replied, “You don’t always need to like what you do to love what you do.”

Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Do what you need to do FIRST, so that you can do what you want to do LATER.

When you do something long enough, you get good at it. Whatever you’re good at, you’ll grow a passion for.