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#78: The Myth of Following Your Passion With Cal Newport

The Art of Manliness

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How Much Capital Do I Have?

As you build up increasingly rare and valuable skills, you gain more of this fictitious quantity that I call career capital. And just like monetary capital, you can then invest it as you grow it into the traits that are going to give you real returns in your life. So if you want a really desirable trait in your working life, such as you completely decide on your own what you work on and when, that's going to require a lot of career capital. That's why if you've majored in a specific topic, all things being equal, why is it makes the holidays should be celebrated in style?

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