So Good They Cant Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport

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Title: So Good They Cant Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

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Not only are pre-existing passions rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work, but a focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and others who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers. Cal reveals that matching your job to a pre-existing passion does not matter. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it. With a title taken from the comedian Steve Martin, who once said his advice for aspiring entertainers was to be so good they cant ignore you, Cal Newports clearly written manifesto is mandatory reading for anyone fretting about what to do with t