What Larry is saying, as I see it, is to rid yourself of fear. To not hold back. To experience the kind of experience you wish to have to the fullest. If that experience you wish for doesn't include such high dreams it's just fine. In fact, you could be the opposite. You could be a celebrity who DOES want a small life, one with family. And if that's the celebrity's dream he or she should go for it, and forget about the career instead. Ultimately, it's about being yourself. Follow your passion means exactly that. Live your life, not someone else's. Because your own feelings are your ultimate truth. If you betray your own feelings for what the world tells you, then you betray yourself. You don't have to take the words so literally, the meaning is within.