The Bad Advice of “Following Your Passion”
Passion. I found a similar curious mindset when I discovered the writings of Cal Newport. Newport is a professor of computer programming at Georgetown University. He is also the author of this book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You. Although he teaches computer programming, the premise of this book is based on his quest to answer the following question, “how do people end up loving what they do?” He goes on to say that “following your passion” is bad advice. The book is the result of his research on this topic.
Newport breaks down his research into four rules:
- #1 Rule – Don’t Follow Your Passion
- #2 Rule – Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You
- #3 Rule – Turn Down a Promotion
- #4 Rule – Think Small, Act Big
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