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Why Passion Is So Critically Important to Happiness.
By Gretchen Rubin — 2007
I’ve become convinced that one of the greatest supports to a person’s happiness is passion—whether for musical theater, video games, constitutional history, camping, stamps, shoe-shopping, teaching English as a second language, or whatever.
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