How a Primal Lifestyle Can Help You Find Your Passion

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Many people today lead lives of flatness or even despair in which they take paths dictated by cultural or familial expectation—or by the pursuit of money over passion. They go whole decades of life never asking what they’d rather be doing, and those frustrated inclinations end up coming out sideways in a midlife crisis or just a subtle resentment that smolders each day.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)

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0:00.0	The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,
0:09.7	and is narrated by Tina Lehman.
0:16.3	How a primal lifestyle can help you find your passion.
0:20.6	I saw someone wearing a t-shirt the other day
0:22.7	that read, Do More of What You Love. It was a simple message, but a welcome shift from the deluge
0:29.0	of difficult news and negative media were often met with. I wasn't in a hurry that day and let my mind
0:35.1	wander with it while I waited for a friend. The fact is, over the years I've managed to revamp my life in such a way that I'm indeed
0:42.3	doing more of what I love.
0:44.3	It's taken time, but I've combined what I should do to take care of myself with what I enjoy
0:50.3	doing.
0:51.3	Trading hours of training each day for beach sprints, surfing, and ultimate has been part of that.
0:56.7	But so has taken more time to be in community and write. I'm in a profession now that I find
1:03.0	fulfilling, and I pursue a whole range of hobbies that bring me a good share of joy in addition to
1:08.3	well-being. Going primal rebuilt my health, but it's also
1:12.7	transformed my life and helped me stumble into passions I didn't even realize I had. Beyond being in
1:18.8	the business itself, however, I think there's truly something to just living the primal way
1:24.0	that's conducive to discovering what you love. There's something ironic to all of this, of course.
1:30.3	Grock and his kin didn't have all the opportunities we do, not in the incredible span of possibility
1:35.3	available to us anyway, and a lot of time and energy were invested into that most basic
1:40.8	of pursuits.
1:42.5	And yet, Grock wasn't funneled into a minute specialization from an
1:46.5	early age, or expected to work a 40 to 80-hour work week on top of a long commute. The guy had a
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