" Tell me what you are willing to suffer for and I will tell you your passion" Anonymous Today during my virtual Mastermind speaking group, one of our speakers gave a great talk (speech) on passion. I've heard and read lots about passion and have even talked and written about it many times myself. Actually, I think almost my entire book, Balls the Size of Melons, is about living life with passion. Merriam online definition of passion is: 1 : a strong feeling or emotion He spoke with passion . 2 : an object of someone's love, liking, or desire Art is my passion. 3 : strong liking or desire : love She has a passion for music. There's no mention of suffering there. Until today, I had never considered passion as encompassing suffering. Suffering...really? It almost seems that suffering would in some ways be the opposite of passion. To me passion has always conjured up feelings and images of joy, curiosity, liveliness, about what makes my heart sing not what pain