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Book: So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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  1. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    the happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who have been around long enough to become good at what they do.
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  2. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    If you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.
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  3. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    Pushing past what is comfortable, however is only one part of the deliberate-practice story; the other part is embracing honest feedback - even if it destroys what you thought was good.
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  4. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    The things that make a great job great...are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect to get a good job.
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  5. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, "follow you passion" can be bad advice. It's more important to become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this generates into the type of traits that make a job great. The traits of control and mission are two good places to start.
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  6. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    Mike Jackson leveraged the craftsman mindset to do whatever he did really well, thus ensuring that he came away from each experience with as much career capital as possible. He never had elaborate plans for his career. Instead, after each working experience, he would stick his head up to see who was interested in his newly expanded store of capital,
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  7. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    The traits that define great work are bought with career capital, the theory argues; they don't come from matching your work to your innate passion.
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  8. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take action.
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  9. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    the message at the core of this book: Working right trumps finding the right work-it's a simple idea, but it's also incredibly subversive, as it overturns decades of folk career advice all focused on the mystical value of passion. It wrenches us away from our daydreams of an overnight transformation into instant job bliss and provides instead a more sober way toward fulfillment.
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  10. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    My professional situation now couldn't be more perfect," Scott reports. "I chose to pursue the career I knew in my heart I was passionate about: politics…. I love my office, my friends… even my boss." The glamorous promises of the passion hypothesis, however, led Scott to question whether his perfect job was perfect enough. "It's not fulfilling," he worries when reflecting on the fact that his job, like all jobs, includes difficult responsibilities. He has since restarted his search for his life's work. "I've committed myself to exploring other options that interest me," Scott says. "But I'm having a hard time actually thinking of a career that sounds appealing.
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  11. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    I keep a tally of the total number of hours I've spent that month in a state of deliberate practice.
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  12. Cal Newport _ So Good They Can't Ignore You:

    musicians, athletes, and chess players, among others, know all about deliberate practice, but knowledge workers do not. Most knowledge workers avoid the uncomfortable strain of deliberate practice like the plague, a reality emphasized by the typical cubicle dweller's obsessive e-mail–checking habit-for what is this behavior if not an escape from work that's more mentally demanding?
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