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“As Ericsson explains, “Most individuals who start as active professionals… change their behavior and increase their performance for a limited time until they reach an acceptable level. Beyond this point, however, further improvements appear to be unpredictable and the number of years of work… is a poor predictor of attained performance.” Put another way, if you just show up and work hard, you’ll soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you fail to get any better.” (So Good They Can’t Ignore You Quotes)
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“By accepting an assistant position he threw himself into the center of the action, where he could find out how things actually work.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take action.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“I felt like I was stretching to convince the world that my work was interesting, yet no one cared.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“I keep a tally of the total number of hours I’ve spent that month in a state of deliberate practice.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“If you go after more control in your working life without a rare and valuable skill to offer in return, you’re likely pursuing a mirage.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“If you spend too much time focusing on whether or not you’ve found your true calling, the question will be rendered moot when you find yourself out of work.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“If you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“If your goal is to love what you do, you must first build up “career capital” by mastering rare and valuable skills, and then cash in this capital for the traits that define great work.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“Money is a neutral indicator of value. By aiming to make money, you’re aiming to be valuable.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“No one owes you a great career, it argues; you need to earn it—and the process won’t be easy.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“The good news about deliberate practice is that it will push you past this plateau and into a realm where you have little competition.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“The happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who have been around long enough to become good at what they do. On reflection, this makes sense.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“The Law of Financial Viability When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing to pay for it. If you find this evidence, continue. If not, move on.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“The passion hypothesis is not just wrong, it’s also dangerous. Telling someone to “follow their passion” is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“To have a mission is to have a unifying focus for your career.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“We like to think of innovation as striking us in a stunning eureka moment, where you all at once change the way people see the world, leaping far ahead of our current understanding. I’m arguing that in reality, innovation is more systematic.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing to pay for it. If you find this evidence, continue. If not, move on.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
“Without this patient willingness to reject shiny new pursuits, you’ll derail your efforts before you acquire the capital you need.”
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
