Cal Newport: Career Progression and Consciously Disconnecting
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The Path to Interesting Passionate Careers Is Not All About You and Your Damn Passion
The path to interesting passionate careers are haphazard like Steve Jobs's path was haphazard right and so it's not about this idea that you're meant to do one thing. Reality is much more interesting and complicated than that sort of Disney fairytale version of the story. The key question then is how do I build career capital. How do I become so good I can't be ignored. Because essentially if you want to master hard things there's no shortcut, just putting aside time and focusing really hard on them.
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