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So Good They Can't Ignore You

So Good They Can't Ignore You

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A book by Cal Newport about developing valuable skills and career success.

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Mark Manson
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Used for: Understanding how passion and purpose emerge from mastery rather than being prerequisites for choosing a career path Praised: Makes the point that passion follows mastery, not the other way around; uses ...

"It reminds me of a story in Cal Newport's book So Good They Can't Ignore You, which by the way is a great book around this, because he makes the point in that book that you don't find a vocation that you're passionate about. What generally happens..."

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Chris Williamson
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Used for: Building competence to gain respect Praised: Principle of being so good they can't ignore you

"There's a book by Cal Newport called So Good They Can't Ignore You. Be so good that they can't ignore you. Be so good that they can't disrespect you is a solution."

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Cal Newport
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Used for: Building career capital through deliberate skill development rather than following passion; using the craftsman mindset for professional growth Praised: Provides the craftsman mindset framework for incremental, evidence-based care...

"The craftsman mindset comes from my book, So Good They Can't Ignore You, back from 2012. I should push that book more. That's a good book, Jesse."

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"This is about my first hardcover book from 2012, written while a postdoc at MIT. It was called So Good They Can't Ignore You. It was a contrarian c..."

"So Good They Can't Ignore You was me confronting the passion hypothesis as part of my own life — answering the question, as a postdoc at MIT, how d..."

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