So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

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Courage Culture – “the idea that the only thing standing between you and a dream job is building the courage to step off the expected path” of “other people’s definition of success” and follow your own dreams The Second Control Trap – “the principle that when you acquire enough career capital to acquire meaningful control over your working life, that’s exactly when you’ve become valuable enough to your current employer that they will try to prevent you from making the change” This is the question Cal Newport takes up in the three rules that follow. These rules chronicle his quest to figure out how people really end up loving what they do. Rule #2: Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You (Or, the Importance of Skill) Chapter 4: The Clarity of the Craftsman Cal argues that great missions are transformed into great successes as the result of finding projects that satisfy the law of remarkability. Even if anyone wants to keep you at bay due to any reason, they will be unable to do so because talent always shows. It has a way of showing because it is natural and has been worked upon thereby making one truly excellent at their endeavors.

The Passion Mindset – an approach to your working life in which you focus on the value your job presents to you, which results in perpetual sadness and confusion for the following reasons: If you just show up and work hard, you will soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you get any better.Understanding the adjacent possible and its role in innovation is the first link in a chain of argument that explains how to identify a good career mission. Many people have lots of career capital and can identify a variety of different potential missions for their work, but few actually build their career around such missions. When you cultivate the craftsman mindset, you aren’t too concerned about “finding your passion.” Instead, you’re focused on producing more valuable work. And in that pursuit of producing more value, you end up discovering what you like, what other people enjoy, and ultimately how you can do work that you find meaningful and that’s valued by other people. Traits that define great work

When applied to career building, your mission needs to produce purple cows or a remarkable mission-driven project that compels people to spread your message to create a sustainable career. Thus, you can adopt the mindset of a marketer using the strategy of the Law of Remarkability:

Self Determination Theory tells us that motivation in the workplace requires that you fulfill three basic psychological needs. Ryan did not “follow his passion” into farming, he stumbled into his profession and found that his passion for the work increased along with his expertise.

In short, it’s rare that you will be passionate about something from day 1 and forever be interested in that something. Rather, passion is often born out of spending a lot of time in a field and getting good at the skills required to feel autonomous, competent, and connected with the work you’re doing. The dangers of the passion hypothesis The 10,000-Hour Rule – “the idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise” The path to happiness goes much further beyond the simple question of “What should I do with my life?” In his book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Cal Newport discusses what he learned from trying to answer the following question: Rule #1 states that “follow your passion” is terrible career advice, which provides the foundation for everything that follows in this book. Chapter One: The “Passion” Of Steve Jobs Missions work because they help focus your energy toward a useful goal that increases your impact on the world, which helps you feel more connected to the work that you do.

Auction Market – a less structured market with “many different types of career capital, and each person might generate their own unique collection of this capital”