Passion and ambition are just not neuro-vanilla traits. I think that's what you're picking up on.
Some people these days who are anything but call themselves autistic, ADHD, etc because they don't have a defensible banner anymore under which they can be passionate or ambitious without some reason behind the reason for it.
The only way out is empathy - true empathy, a willingness to accept sometimes (often) people do things for the sheer joy of doing them.
> Passion and ambition are just not neuro-vanilla traits.
Hard disagree, which I think is your point. I see this as an offshoot of anti-intellectualism: distaste for / absence of passion and ambition is cultural, not biological, and culture becomes self-sustaining.
> The only way out is empathy - true empathy, a willingness to accept sometimes (often) people do things for the sheer joy of doing them.
Strong agree, and it's wild to me that this has indeed become a radical idea.
Some people these days who are anything but call themselves autistic, ADHD, etc because they don't have a defensible banner anymore under which they can be passionate or ambitious without some reason behind the reason for it.
The only way out is empathy - true empathy, a willingness to accept sometimes (often) people do things for the sheer joy of doing them.