Hi Anaha,
I assume your question is "how to pursue your passion with career about which you are also passionate". Career I presume in not a compulsion but a choice.
My answer has to be of generalized nature.
Passion is a very profound word. In Hindi or Urdu it is called “Junoon”, which kind of means madness for something. It not simply love or interest for something. It carries a sense of extreme interest. It haunts you. Never leaves you. You eat, live, sleep with it. So there is no question of leaving your genuine passion in lieu of something else.
But what if the passion is not really that extreme but it is of somewhat of lighter kind. Then what?
Then we have to grade it according to the level of madness. From “extreme” to “kind of love it” in a scale of one to hundred. I deliberately selected this scale instead of 1 to 100, just to emphasize the extreme to practically nothing, all 100 shades of it. Note that a passion of value 1 means practically no passion, it simply exist in your list of interests.
What if I have passion for more than one thing? In that case both can’t be of 100 in the scale of 100. If one is X then other has to be less than or equal to 100-X. Mathematically, a person with multiple extreme passions is not in our purview.
If there are three, and one is X, other is say Y and the third cannot exceed 100-X-Y.
The real life is multi passion kind of scenario. Career may be one of the many passions with some value X.
For a passionate careerist person perusing another strong passion like sports or music or acting or writing or adventure or politics or something having nothing in common with career profession is difficult. This situation has to become a matter of priority. Once priority is decided, which is nothing but where to compromise how much, then what is left is a matter of planning. Allocation of time according to priority. Like TV channels there will be some prime time some not so prime. High priority passion will get prime time other lesser order time.
But to be successful in this priority distribution a necessary precondition is that no cross thinking or talking; that means when I am singing, I should not be thinking of my next meeting with my important client or my monthly sales target.
So conclusion is to prioritize and insulate one passion from another.
It is easier said than done, but is that is only way out, in my personal opinion and “experience”. There is a huge possibility that there will be some disappointment in the later part of life over not achieving what you thought was possible; there is no escape.
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