Some people, as you mention, do find a specific area to explore, which they pursue through life, and which doesn’t seem to change much. It looks like this holds for a small percentage of people.

Some people enjoy using a set of talents, and the specific job is less important. For these people, a talent like creativity may be fulfilling to use, and they could apply it equally to forming business models as an entrepreneur, as they could in graphic design, or cooking.

For most people, I think their time is best spent trying to see patterns of which skills and talents they enjoy using, and then looking for appealing opportunities to grow them.

For everyone, your principles hold though – determined experience in, and development of skills leads to expertise and fulfillment.

I think one reason people propose the idea of passion as being fixed, is that we are also taught to be goal-oriented, and so the idea of a fixed passion presents something tangible to strive for.

I am finding that it’s better to adopt principles similar to Lean Startup and similar business development models, where the emphasis is on deciding what I want to learn next, and focusing my work on ho to use time and resources to achieve what I want to learn, while pursuing personal excellence.

I’ve seen way too many people become passionate about dance, progressively, as their skill grew. Prior to this many were lukewarm about the whole affair, though if you looked hard enough, and carefully enough, you could catch a glimmer of something in their eye when watching an instructor demonstrate a movement.

I think that something, is what Daniel calls ‘Ignition’. If you asked me, passion is ignited.