So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
A man achieves his lifelong dream of becoming a Zen monk and ends up crying alone in the woods. That is where this audio starts, dismantling the advice to follow your passion. It retells Steve Jobs' scattershot college years at Reed, the chess study showing grandmasters spent thousands of hours in serious deliberate practice, and Alex Berger writing three television scripts until 3 a.m. to break into Hollywood. Steve Martin's rule, be so good they can't ignore you, anchors the craftsman mindset. You also hear how control, autonomy and mission are earned only after rare skills are built.
A man achieves his lifelong dream of becoming a Zen monk and ends up crying alone in the woods. That is where this audio starts, dismantling the advice to follo
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