While passion is important, competence is essential. Passion alone does not guarantee success or impact if not paired with the skills and abilities needed to deliver results. True innovation comes from having both passion and competence, as passion provides the motivation to develop one's skills over time through focused effort and learning despite challenges or shortcomings.

1. Don’t Confuse Passion with
Competence

2. Reality Distortion Field

3. “Everybody has a
plan, until they get
punched in the
face”

6. Passion only matters if it leads to an
innovation that delivers
impact

7. "the ability to hold two opposed ideas
in the mind at the same time and still
retain the ability to function."

9. It is hard to have adequate
competence if we don't have
passion to do it

10. Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond
their shortcomings, beyond their failures. – Joseph Campbell,
American Mythologist, Writer, and Lecturer