Another Chicken and Egg - Passion vs Effort

Steve Jobs said we've got to have passion in what we do because it is real hard. If we don't love it and have fun doing it, we will fail because that is the only sane thing to do. We don't like to do things that are hard.

Mark Cuban suggests that chances are we will not find our passion first. We have to follow our effort and develop the passion from there.

I personally think that "passion" is an overused word. Successful people tend to sum it all up with "passion". And I think many (including myself) mistaken that "passion" comes first, that we've got to love this thing before we start doing it.

I believe it starts from "intuition". Don't think too much. Just follow our hearts and start doing. From here, Mark Cuban and Malcolm Gladwell rightly put it that the more we do, the better we get. When we are good at something, people look up to us as experts, we have recognition, the thing will get easier and easier to do, it gets more fun and we love it more and that's passion. So it's:

Intuition -> Action/Create -> Fun -> Passion

Of course, there are people who know their passion from the beginning, like Connie Talbot, Charice and Mozart. They are the prodigies. For the majority of us, I believe it's action first.