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So Good They Can't Ignore You

Posted at — Jan 22, 2017

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I’ve written a short post about the idea, that searching for a passion is not rational, and it can lead to frustrated careers. Main point:

you need to be good at something before you can expect a good job.

  1. Don’t follow your passion
  2. The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; thats the hardest phase
  3. It’s hard to realize that to love the job, complex things happens during the journey
  4. There is a lot of traits of an enjoyable job, passion is not amongst them
  5. The more time you spend with a job, the more you’ll love it
  6. There are 3 things for enjoying a job:
    • Autonomy
    • Competency
    • Social connections

  7. Having a passion means having high expectations

  8. Importance of skill

  9. Craftman mindeset: What you can offer the world?

  10. Passion mindset: What can I get from the job? Its very frustrating, especially at entry level, graduate jobs

  11. 3 traits of a good job

    • Creativity
    • Impact to the world
    • Control

  12. 3 situation, when Craftman mindset could not work

    • Bad social situation
    • The work is harmful
    • Low value creation, no skill to acquire

  13. Deliberate practice, hard work

  14. Habits of a craftsman

    • What is your capital market (winner-take-it-all or auction)
    • What is your goal to aim?
    • Deliberate practice
    • Be patient

  15. Importance of control

  16. Control requires career capital

  17. Do what people are willing to pay

  18. Importance of mission

  19. Before choosing a mission you have to get to the edge of your career capital

  20. Have to take little bets (months), trying new things out

    • To maximize your chances of success, you should deploy small, concrete experiments that return concrete feedback.

  21. “For a mission-driven project to succeed, it should be remarkable in two different ways. First, it must compel people who encounter it to remark about it to others. Second, it must be launched in a venue that supports such remarking.”

  22. “Working right trumps finding the right work”