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I don't think a deep focused passion is incompatible with well-roundedness. If one's passion is food, there are many ways of connecting the world to the theme. History of food, politics of food, aesthetics of food, cooking of food, philosophy of food...etc. Through studying food from different perspectives, one learns various ways of making sense of one single subject. This is a form of creativity in its own right. Different perspectives will also reveal the human creativity in organizing our material world. I took "deep passion" to be a central lens through which one sees the world.