Many of the greatest people that ever lived identified passion as the secret of their success. They passionately focus their minds, energy and resources on what they wanted and they eventually achieved tremendous results. Coding is what Bill Gates loved doing and he wrote those first codes that have become the market value of Microsoft today and that early beginning also is the mother of his wealth. Jumping is what Michael Jordan loved doing and he will rather train on jumping than sleep so he invested most time of his active sport live jumping. Experimenting is what Thomas Edison enjoyed doing that even while working at Western Union he continued to mix chemicals together until one day sulphuric acid spilled in the office and he got himself fired. Business is what Dangote loved doing and he started out early trading and relentlessly trying his hands on businesses until he's the talk of the world. Imagine that Femi Otedola lived in a generation of passion where he leveraged on his father's influence to learn business dexterity in the same country where other children of influence will jet all around the world lavishing luxury in fact some will fly jet from Abuja to Kano just to buy Suya. What then is the difference between Femi Otedola and others of his kind? Funnily, there is no single formula or singular principle that drives passion but different person with different principle that propel their curiosity. What drives Dangote might not itch Mitchell Elegbe that created interswitch that has become one of the best indigenous payment solutions in Africa. What drives Femi Otedola might not pull a strand in the soul of Fola Adeola that built GTBank from the scratch on the platform of corporate governance and innovation. What drives Otunba Subomi Balogun that built FCMB and other businesses in Nigeria might not touch Jason Njoku that created Iroko TV after failing in other 11 businesses. The question is, what drives your passion? Is it an image or leptic imagery of a mentor or a great personalty; Albert Einstein had the pictures of Isaac Newton, James Maxwell and Michael Faraday on his wall which motivated his scientific instincts? Is it love for a particular skill or vocation similar to Karl Benz who invented car because of his love for technical work or Alexander Graham Bell whose mother was deaf but invented telephone perhaps while finding solutions but ended up creating the taproot of globalization? Is it adversity or tragedy like JK Rowling whose lost of mother, marriage, pregnancy, job and even suffered clinical depression yet found satisfactions in writing until Harry Potter and other books landed her in great influence and affluence, some characters in the books are representatives of her troubles or worries? Is it rejection parable of Stephen King whose book publication was rejected 30times but his books have sold over 350million copies after all? Apostle Paul was using his passion driver when he said "...this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press towards the mark...." It is passion driver that makes you continue in the pursuit of your dream despite failure. Again, what drives your passion? Find it, nurture it and let it create your market value. 'Tope Oladele