
The root of the word ‘ passion’ actually means to suffer. The rise of the life coach has propagated the term exponentially and every social media influencer has dropped it into their caption at one point or another – “ Find your passion.” Dr Donne discusses it in her article Shine: Setting Goals to our Highest Values. This is a whole article, or perhaps a whole book even, all on its own. It is developed through our own unique life experiences.

This list of priorities is the framework through which we make just about every decision and it’s the paradigm which determines our emotions around the events and relationships in our lives.


It is the home of objective reasoning.īefore I go any further into these two sides of our neurology I want to touch briefly on the fact that each individual has a fingerprint specific hierarchy of values or priorities, things they deem to be important. It’s what separates us from other animals because it is where our higher thought processes live.
