HACKER Q&A
📣 fer_momento

How important is it to be passionate about the problem you are solving?


If I'm being completely honest, I have a resume maker website but I'm not passionate at all about resumes.

Although it is really rewarding to help people in something as important as their job search, what I am really passionate about is building cool things online and the potential of building a lifestyle business that would allow me to be a time millionaire.

But I always wonder how it would feel when both boxes are checked- when you are passionate about the problem you are solving AND passionate about building your own business.

Sometimes what you're passionate about is not economically feasible- I would love to develop video games but the market is already saturated. Although having a successful business could leave room for me to use my free time to follow my passion.

Then the line can get blurry- am I passionate about the problem my product is trying to solve or passionate about the result of solving that problem? I don't actually care about resumes but I work on it with passion because of the possible outcome ... what is the difference then?

I'm sure there are plenty of people on this forum who have had a great money-making idea and went for it. But that's not necessarily in niche that you feel passionate about.

What do you think is the extent to which a business can be hindered when the founder(s) have no passion for the problem the business is solving? Do you think it even matters?


  👤 gsatic Accepted Answer ✓
Passion is just one word representing one Need. And its not static but constantly varying. Our chimp brain is usually trying to meet a bunch of different varying needs simultaneously. And its good to develop an awareness of all them and where you stand in meeting them all. That list also changes as problems and rewards appear and disappear. Sometimes one need might appear to be more important than all others but it never is.