Everything you Need to Know about the Passion Paradigm

Dara Laine Murray
5 min readAug 28, 2022

“If you want to be happy, you just have to do what you love.”

We’ve all heard this saying, haven’t we?

But what does this actually mean? How can we take this and implement it in our lives? How can we actually do what we love and not get caught up in everything else?

The questions go on and on.

Hi, I’m Dara; I love what I do, and I want to take a moment to introduce you to the passion paradigm.

Everything you Need to Know about the Passion Paradigm
Photo of Tiffany Harrison by Emily Wilkerson at the Bloom Retreat

What is the passion paradigm?

To define “passion paradigm,” I think it would be helpful to define the two words.

Passion is defined as an “intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction.”

A paradigm is defined as “a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated.”

Therefore we can define the passion paradigm as an intense feeling and a theoretical framework…?

Ok… Maybe that doesn’t clear things up.

I like how this article puts it when it says,

“The passion paradigm prioritizes the pursuit of…

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Dara Laine Murray
Dara Laine Murray

Written by Dara Laine Murray

Multi-passionate sobriety writer on Medium. Day job: Director of Research at a nonprofit. Stories = sober + stats. Editor: https://medium.com/modern-sobriety

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