“Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Alex Berger, he didn’t arrive at his outstanding job by following a clear passion. Instead he carefully and persistently gathered career capital,… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“I am suggesting that you put aside the question of whether your job is your true passion, and instead turn your focus… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“If you want to love what you do, abandon the passion mindset (“what can the world offer me?”) and instead adopt the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Here’s a case where someone successfully followed their passion,” they say, “therefore ‘follow your passion’ must be good advice.” This is faulty… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Telling someone to “follow their passion” is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“In Wrzesniewski’s research, the happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“The passion hypothesis is not just wrong, it’s also dangerous. Telling someone to “follow their passion” is not just an act of… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“some might respond that their knowledge work job cannot possibly become such a source of meaning because their job’s subject is much… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“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… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“The more I studied the issue, the more I noticed that the passion hypothesis convinces people that somewhere there’s a magic “right”… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“many software companies now deploy the Scrum project management methodology, which replaces a lot of this ad hoc messaging with regular, highly structured, and… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“when paying more than $1,000 a day to write the chapter in a suite of an old hotel down the street from a Hogwarts-style… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“study by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow. In this study, a group of management consultants were asked to disconnect for a full day… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I encountered the… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my “bible” a paper I think might be relevant to my research.… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Not long into his 2010 TED talk on creativity and leadership, Derek Sivers plays a video clip of a crowd at an outdoor concert.… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Kirk’s path to American Treasures was incremental. He didn’t decide out of nowhere that he wanted to host a television show and then work… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“If you spend too much time focusing on whether or not you’ve found your true calling, the question will be rendered moot when you… — Cal Newport Copy Share
“Their plans were circumspect and small-time. They weren’t dreaming of taking over the world.” — Cal Newport Copy Share
“This chain method (as some now call it) soon became a hit among writers and fitness enthusiasts—communities that thrive on the ability to do… — Cal Newport Copy Share
