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How to Quit Your Boring Job – Turn a Passion into a Career

Academy of Ideas

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The Hobbyist Approach to Uncommon Success

Should we quit our day job and fully devote ourselves to the pursuit of uncommon success, or should we adopt what is called the hobbyist approach? For some people, this is not merely a question of an easy life versus one of risk and hard work. For some, this is a question of sickness versus health, or even life versus death. The cumulative effects of pursuing a purpose in this hobby-like manner can be immense for as press field writes. One hour a day is seven hours a week, 30 hours a month, 365 hours a year, 360 hours is 9, 40 hour weeks. In 10 years, that's 10 novels or 20 movie scripts. You can be a full-

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