Finding Your Passion Isn’t What You Think It Is
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There’s this idea that passion arrives like lightning. One moment you’re living your normal life, and the next moment—boom—you know exactly what you’re meant to do forever.
That’s almost never how it happens.
Passion doesn’t usually arrive fully formed. It doesn’t introduce itself politely or wait until the timing makes sense. More often, it shows up quietly. It’s the thing you keep coming back to. The thing you think about when you’re supposed to be doing something else. The thing that feels less like a decision and more like a pull.
That’s the hook.
Most creatives don’t “find” their passion in a single moment. They follow curiosity. They experiment. They try things without knowing where it will lead. And slowly, something starts to take shape.
You start noticing patterns. The same instincts. The same energy. The same feeling of being fully present when you’re doing that one thing.
It might not look practical. It might not make sense to anyone else. It might even scare you a little, because it asks more of you than anything else ever has.
Passion doesn’t promise stability. It promises meaning.
The truth is, passion isn’t something you wait for. It’s something you recognize in hindsight. It’s the thing you couldn’t walk away from, even when it would’ve been easier to try.
At The Hook, every artist we talk to has a version of this story. They didn’t always know where they were going. But they knew when something grabbed them.
And once you’re hooked, you don’t really go back.
