Passion which is balanced by perspective and reason can reveal purpose, but passion absent those filters can just as easily impede purpose.

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The narrow perspective is one reason age-based portfolios are popular for college saving.

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The reason being that from an economic perspective, just making it to a pro league is way more important than optimizing for how much he will make once he is there.

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