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Follow your passion. Is that profitable career advice? Or a one-way ticket to life as a starving artist, gamer, or writer?

According to Nick Woodman, founder and CEO of the American technology company GoPro, your passions are your most reliable guides in life and in business.

Nick started creating his product after watching amateur photographers like himself struggle to take pictures while surfing the waves in Australia and Indonesia. Today, the business pulls in more than $1 billion in annual revenue.

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While Nick may have achieved success by following his passions, you probably know many other entrepreneurs who have followed their passions straight into penury. You know it takes more than passion to lift an entrepreneur from a failed company to an internationally successful one.

Nick knows that, now, too. After GoPro nearly went belly up in 2017, Nick admitted that long-term success required a big dose of realism as well as passion and a thirst for adventure. He