So Good They Can't Ignore You

Author: Cal Newport Genre: Life Advice, Productivity Rating: Lifechanging 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Following your passion is a bad advice Find a work and do deliberate practice to get better in your field and be the absolute best Place little bets (incremental challenges) to turn your work into a missions 🎨 Impressions This book really captures the amount of time we waste trying to find our passion in life and the mission. It takes the urban myth of following your passion and deconstructs as to how it is a bad advice and how we can fail miserably if we don’t have certain skill sets before jumping right into it. One of the most profound things I’ve heard on Huberman Lab’s podcast is we don’t really know what we like, we just pick it up from our surroundings. So we don’t really know what our passion is. ...

March 15, 2023 · 8 min · Himanshu Maheshwari