Passion, talent or training?

Exactly like image above, passion is difference. It what makes you stood up. Shooting needs self-discipline, dedication, hard work, consistency and hours of training. But what ties them together is passion. what is passion? Passion is what makes you save your money to buy pellet than a candy. Passion is what makes you go to range everyday and spend almost 2 hours for shooting. Passion is what makes you join competition whether you gonna win or not. Passion is what stop you from quitting after a bad shooting. Passion is what makes you refuse to give up in the match even it seems hopeless. Passion is what makes you force yourself focus in each shot. Okay, we have established that passion is essential for shooting. The question is, is it something that made by design or earned? I give you simple fact to prove that passion is skill. There's no new-born baby already have passion for shooting. For example, what makes a professional guitarist different from a high school band-guitarist. Professional guitarist play guitar for 6 hours a day and high school guitarist probably just once or twice a week. Why professional guitarist can consistently do that? Because he loves it. Outside that he earn his living and play guitar is part is his job, he loves play guitar whether really producing a music or just doodling. so how he loves it? Because he understand what he is doing, he entertained by it, he play whole-heartily, he want to learn more, and he is happy. That is the point, if you are happy it easier to get the task done. Understand does not mean you have to be expert. Knowledge is part of passion. How can you love someone if you don't know him well? The more you know the more you'll love. so another question is, how to be passionate about shooting consistently? Everyone feel up and down. If you feel less passionate that usual, its normal. But you have to gain it back. All you need to do is keep doing simple stuff related to shooting. For example, for past few weeks my passion is kept decreasing. I was in state like, "the competition is over, so what's next?". But I met my friend, talked about shooting, made me want to review my shooting notebook, I found and read it, doodling, gave me idea to start blogging again and I can feel my passion is returning :) Start by small silly stuff may ended up as a huge step forward.