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Ep. 119: Does Accomplishment Require Overload?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Career Capital Theory

career capital theory will help clarify a lot of these questions for you. As you develop rare and valuable skills, you acquire more of what i call career capital. This career capital you can then invest to get into your work the traits that make great work great. Be very careful about leaving a carer in whih you've built up a lot of career capital and going to a career where you have none. The less capital you have in your current career, probably the worst it's going to be because you have less leverage,. You ave less you can invest to get back good traits.

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