On Books Podcast - So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
“Follow Your Passion” is bad career advice, find out why...
On Books Podcast - So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport launched on April 4, 2016 with 60 votes, #1,165 of 4,301 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the re
“A Canadian university questionnaire : Do these students have passions? And what are they? Here are the top five identified passions: dance, hockey, skiing, reading, and swimming. Though dear to the hearts of the students, these passions don’t have much to offer when it comes to choosing a job…..” [15] “The passion hypothesis convinces people that somewhere there’s a magic ‘right’ job waiting for them, and that if they find it, they’ll immediately recognize that this is the work they were meant to do.” So if you shouldn’t follow your passion, what should you do? That brings us to Rule #2. Most people adapt the passion mindset, but this chapter argues that…from castig.org
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