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If you don't know your passion you don't have one yet. Its not like there is a pleasure center in your brain tagged "skying" that is all plugged up and ready to go if only you would some day go to a place with snow. You may have a disposition to a certain type of passion that could be fulfilled by a number of different criteria.
You may be right, I was speculating quite a bit. To be honest, I would be interested to know if some research has ever been made on the subject, i.e. roughly speaking "passion space configuration". I really don't know if the hypothetical "passion function" has some very localized peaks or is generally smooth (or has both large plateaus and sharp peaks!). The only evidence I have comes from myself and it points in both directions, i.e.:
a) I hate pretty much every sport involving coordination, except for tennis (sharp peak hypothesis)
b) I like pretty much every tabletop and card games, some more, some less, but with a small variation between them
The "plateau hypothesis" could explain no passion <= the level of the plateau is low. The "sharp peak hypothesis" could explain no passion <= you never reached the small region were the peak is situated.
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