Cal Newport: "So Good They Can't Ignore You"

Key Important Lessons

• The path for finding passion is way more complicated in reality
• Force yourself to learn skills as there are no-pre existing passions
• Matching your work to interest cannot give a satisfying career
• Autonomy in Life + Impact on World = Chose that Career
• General Lifestyle traits = Respect, Creative, Time, Schedule to Think
• Career has given general traits than Jobs
• Build rare and valuable skills from Lifestyle traits
• Increase career capital to continue to work enjoying more
• Do with an absolute limit of ability
• Do what people do not what people say
• Pre-existing passion leads to deliberate practice, Feel strongly about it from the snowball effect
• Build skill acquisition when you like the field, milestones for accomplishment for more motivation
• Expert level 10000hrs performance
• Deliberate practice - Surgeons do, For knowledge workers few hundred systematic hours
• Exposure to stars in the field - follow them. Don't be blind in the field

Building capital in technology, related, connected, increasing connection of capital. Gain more expertise. Ability go build up skill, learn to do tough intellectual challenges, stretch yourself while doing it. Don't spend time on tasks which does not add value in long run.

"Solving unsolvable problems in long run"


Get good at what you do, Build your career capital, become an expert in it!!!