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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business Podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast. Today's discussion is follow your passion. Good advice or bad advice? So I was asked this today by somebody who said to me, you know, do you believe in this concept of follow your passion? And what I would say is that there are two or three different parts of life that in love and in your hobbies, absolutely. Follow your passion in business. And I've heard this said before, that many of the people that say follow your passion are people that are already rich in business. I would view it as, your first goal is to make a living. Your second goal is support your family. And the third is if you get good at it, if you're good at making a living and supporting your family, you'll probably find it very fulfilling and very rewarding. But this concept of follow your passion is the pursuit of making a living. Pursuit of making, of doing business. I will say that the more you decide what you want to do with your living, what you want to do for a living, how you want to approach your career, the happier you will be. And maybe there's a part of that that's follow your passion, but it's also this basic concept of follow your passion, for sure. Follow it in love, in your hobbies, in business, your first goal is make a living, support your family, then find your passion and figure out how to intersect those. Perhaps. But the first goal is, you know, my passion might be looking at the stars, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to make a living and looking at the stars. Same thing. I love playing tennis, I love playing golf. But if I pursue those into making a living and people said, well, then coach it if you can't play it that well. Well, I certainly tried that over the years, but. But that wasn't tremendously fulfilling, even though I'm passionate about tennis and golf and other kinds of sports. So in terms of making a. No, don't follow your passion. Follow making a living and supporting your family, then you could figure out how to follow your passion. Connect your passion, but save the follow your passion advice for your love life, your hobbies, the other things that you do on the side. I don't know, I don't care. That's where your passion should be followed. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business Podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast. It is always great to connect with you. And I am so thankful to our producer, Chanel Bunger, who's just literally a remarkable leader in person and colleagues. The very best of the best Chanel. Thank you every day for what you do. Thank you very much.