7 ways to kill passion
Passion has taken a lot of time and resources away from things that really must be done.
Mundane, benign activities that clearly must always take priority over any sort of significant change in our lives or the lives of those around us. Here are 7 ways to kill it because it clearly isn’t like, super important, and has never done any good.
1. Just stop doing what you’re passionate about
An easy way to rid yourself of the burden of passion is to set your passion aside. Just stop doing it, stop working at it, stop dedicating resources to it, and you will be surprised by how quickly it can go down. Try telling yourself that you’re just taking a “break” or “hiatus”. If you’re saying the word “hiatus” that nearly guarantees the kill.
The objective here is to normalize quitting things you care about. Be careful not to feel like this makes you into a flake. It doesn’t, being passionate is obviously the flakiest thing you can do.
2. Have someone else do it instead
Subdivision, oversight roles, and delegation are excellent tools to withering passion away. The belief that someone else will do better with it and make it better than you can is a helpful multiplier to the killing factor in this method. This is sort of a win-win because if they are better at it than you are, you will realize you didn’t even need or deserve it in the first place, and if they are much worse than you at it, you will start to hate the passion even more because it has synonymized itself with frustration and dissatisfaction. (nice!)
The objective here is to put as much distance between you and what you are passionate about so that you begin to forget why you even liked it in the first place. Be careful not to allow nostalgia to creep in to reattach you to the passion as last resort.
3. Make everything rely on it
The real goal here is to weigh down passion as much as possible, smothering it with responsibility, duty, and if possible, guilt. You may try to pledge yourself to meeting absurd, unachievable benchmarks and goal markers by unrealistic timeframes. Do as much as you can to make your life depend on it, or act like your life does depend on it.
The objective here is to burn it out by making you spread yourself too thin to achieve it in any satisfying or sustainable way. Be careful not to become too desperate here, because desperation has been known to activate the irrational survival instinct of passion if passion has merged with willpower and self-preservation.
4. Spend more time criticizing it than pursuing it
This one might be my personal favorite. If you start to weigh out your time actively pursuing your passion relative to the time you spend on assessing how good it is (if it even is good)(probably not) and find that you spend more time in pursuit than critique, you’re probably gonna be stuck with passion (yuck!) Criticism has been known to have outstanding effects on killing passion, so you can see why I would recommend this one so much.
The objective here is to legitimately just make you hate what you do because you are just trash at it. Be careful not to allow yourself to use this find ways to grow and improve. Just act like you can’t and you should try something else instead.
5. Don’t let anyone see it
It’s no secret that secret projects are best when they are kept secret to your own secret secrecy and never allowed to become someone else’s knowledge, let alone secrecy. Your passion was not meant for everyone to see, it was meant for you to have, hate, and hide. Hiding your passion away is an remarkably effective method of snuffing out passion.
The objective here is to close your passion off so much that you don’t even feel like you can call it passion. Be careful to not let the enclosure of passion to build up pressure that causes your passion to explode into new ideas and projects. (very dangerous)
6. Force everyone to see it
If you can’t keep your passion from everyone, you will have to be obnoxious and make everyone see it. Force it on everyone, identify yourself as someone sooooo overcome by passion, and like you can’t describe yourself without it. Become insufferable. Make it your life mission to show everyone this little passion you have. If this doesn’t burn you out of it, other people will.
The objective here is to make your passion so hateable that you shut it up. If you are incapable of pulling that trigger, the world is a mean place that will make that choice for you. Be careful not to let your push of your passion inspire more sufferable expressions of your passion.
7. Structure every little piece that you can as much as humanly possible
Passion repels structure, so it’s a no brainer that placing a micromanaged structure would box it in to the point of death. Rather than following the impulse and drive of passion, use structure to only allow certain times, uses, and expressions of it. It has to fit into this neat little box of control in order to be tamed.
The objective here is to make it impossible for passion to be enjoyable because it is so limited by so many parameters. Be careful not to structure in a way that turns the chaotic flame of passion into a sustained, controllable heat like electricity.
Closing thoughts
Hopefully this passion-killing tools prove helpful for you in eliminating the infection of passion, so that we can live in solely boring and regulated ways. Once we can rid ourselves of passion, we may truly experience the peace of the void of nothingness that can expand and overtake our existence until we eventually merge with nothingness. If this blog was ineffective at helping you kill passion, send me hate mail. Thanks for not reading!
*disclaimer: if it wasn’t absurdly obvious, this entire blog was written to help give you tips on growing your patience for passion. If you didn’t get that, send me hate mail
