Understanding What Steve Jobs Meant by Passion

Someone recently resurfaced a 2007 video of Steve Jobs answering someone’s question about whether entrepreneurs need passion.

And Jobs is right. Passion is necessary for someone to overcome the ups and downs and eventually attain what they’re trying to achieve. That’s true in business, the arts, hobbies, raising a family or even keeping an immaculate and robustly green lawn. You don’t get anything without passion.