If you are asking me, I would say the latter. But before I get into why, I want to talk a bit about the focus of "life coaches", "self-help gurus" and anyone else writing about how what they have to say can help you live a more fulfilled life by finding YOUR PASSION.

We all have the same amount of time. That's why people who are more productive -- and successful -- use their time more effectively. And that's why my colleague Chris Winfield is such a great resource for entrepreneurs. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Every emotion has a purpose-an evolutionary benefit," says Sandi Mann, a psychologist and the author of The Upside of Downtime: Why Boredom Is Good. "I wanted to know why we have this emotion of boredom, which seems like such a negative, pointless emotion." That's how Mann got started in her specialty: boredom.