Passion often shows up after you get good at something, not before. Don’t wait to feel it first.

Wanting to feel excited before you begin gets the order backwards for most things. Competence is what makes an activity enjoyable, because doing something badly is frustrating no matter how much you theoretically love it. The feeling people call finding your passion is usually the moment a skill crossed from awkward into fluent.

Give one thing you are lukewarm about six honest weeks before you judge it. Look for the point where it stops being clumsy. If the interest has not arrived by then, you have learned something real and can move on.