Think about the last time you felt passion during work.

Passionate workers have an unfair advantage - they work faster, learn quicker, find it easier to enter flow state, and are more emotionally engaged. When you feel passion, work simply doesn't feel like work. Consciously or unconsciously, you emerge into your work.

While this is common knowledge, the fact 43% of American workers are dissatisfied with their work proves that we are vastly underestimating the advantages of choosing passion over money in our career.

Passion gives us endurance.

Endurance matters because consistency matters.

To reach long term goals, we need to act long term. More often than not, we fail not in setting smart goals, but in executing our plan to reach them. Passion can do the heavy lifting for you. James Clear's Atomic Habits teaches us to make habits stay by making them appealing - passion does the very same to our career.

By making work more appealing, you're not depending on willpower and can stay consistent.

Thus, choose passion over money. It will pay off in the long term.