10 powerful quotes from the book "So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport" that will change how you think about your career.

 10 powerful quotes from the book "So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport" that will change how you think about your career.

1. "Your passion for your work increase with your expertise."

2. ''The question is not always “what do we love to do?” but “what would we eventually love to do?”'

3. "Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion."

4. "By theory of supply and demand, those who will given the work they love will be those with career capital - skills that are rare and valuable."

5. "Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice is. Deliberate practice is an effort of focus and concentration."

6. "Great missions are transformed into great successes as the result of finding projects that satisfy the law of remark-ability, which requires that an idea inspires people to remark about it, and is launched in a venue where such remarking is made easy."

7. "People who are especially gifted in an area find “follow your passion” easier to follow."

8. "The craftsman mindset is the foundation for creating work you love. It focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you."

9. "If you’re a guitar player or a comedian, what you produce is basically all that matters. 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."

10. "People at entry-level usually dislike their jobs because they focus on what they don’t like about it. Usually, they don’t have the autonomy or mastery yet because they have to earn it over time."

Passion is good but mastery is better?