<p>Intellectual passion doesn’t mean that one definitely knows what one wants to do for the rest of one’s life. It just means that one has a demonstrated interest in actively learning things – whether or not those are things that one is getting graded on.</p>
<p>Probably the majority of people aren’t that interested in intellectual things. They may be willing to do what a teacher or prof requires, but most people aren’t intellectually passionate enough to learn things unless they are forced to or are doing things for a grade.</p>