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Cal argues that control over what you do, and how you do it, is one of the most powerful traits you can acquire when creating work you love. Career Passions Are Rare: A survey found that 84% of Canadian college students identified personal passions, but less than 4% of them were related to work or education. Breakthroughs require that you first get to the cutting edge of your field, only then can you see to the adjacent possible beyond – the space where innovative ideas are almost always discovered.
For a mission-driven project to succeed it should be remarkable in two ways, 1) it must compel people to remark about it to others and 2) it must be launched in a venue that supports such remarking. Related Book Summaries the second control trap, which warns that once you have enough career capital to acquire more control in your working life, you have become valuable enough to your employer that they will fight your efforts to gain more autonomy. The more I met people who successfully deployed control in their career, the more I heard similar tales of resistance from their employers, friends, and families.
television writing is attractive because it has the three traits that make people love their work: impact, creativity, and control.
The passion hypothesis is not just wrong, it’s also dangerous. Telling someone to “follow their passion” is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst.” Spend time to understand the competition in your field and know what they are doing to perform well. Have the spirit to outdo the best in your field without any fear but with only courage and heart. To have a mission is to have a unifying focus for your career. It’s more general than a specific job and can span multiple positions. Money serves as a “neutral indicator of value, or a way of determining whether or not you have enough career capital to succeed with a pursuit.” When you work to make money or seek evidence of value, you can navigate control and provide value, whether in an entrepreneurial venture or a corporate role. Rule #4: Think Small, Act Big (Or, The Importance Of Mission) What interests me about Mike is that, like Alex Berger, he didn’t arrive at his outstanding job by following a clear passion. Instead he carefully and persistently gathered career capital, confident that valuable skills would translate into valuable opportunities. Unlike Alex, however, Mike started gathering capital before he knew what he wanted to do with it. In fact, he had never given a moment’s thought to cleantech venture capital until a couple weeks before his first interview.The traits that can make your life interesting…had very little to do with intensive soul-searching.” If you start to see the major you choose in college as a matter of cosmic significance, you’ll be in trouble. Newport however seems to have completely missed the point of Bolles' book - and the central point of similar books in this genre.
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