The notion of passion may seem unrelated to productivity and only slightly associated with creativity, but I feel that its relationship with the two is much more.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that passion fuels both productivity and creativity.

Think about it like this. Have you ever been assigned to complete a task or project that you didn’t feel passionate about.

I bet that you procrastinated on that project and when it was completed, it was completed with the minimum accepted requirements.

I remember in college, we had to write papers all the time. At the end of one particular semester, I had twenty-five pages of papers due.

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