So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
part of the book is to describe how
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part of the book is to describe how I am applying these ideas in my own working life. That is, I want to take you inside my thought process and highlight the specific ways in which the insights of Rules #1 – 4 are playing a role in this early stage of my new career. Obviously these applications are tentative—I have not yet been a professor long enough to see how they will all play out—but it’s this tentativeness, I think, that makes them more relevant. They provide a real-world example of the type of concrete actions you can take right now to start applying the lessons of this book in your own working life. Your decisions will differ from mine, but I hope that you’ll encounter in this conclusion a better sense of what it means to re-form a career to match this new way of thinking about creating work you love. How I Applied Rule #1 Rule #1 argued that “follow your passion” is bad advice, as the vast majority of people don’t have pre- existing passions waiting to be discovered and matched to a career. The real path to work you love, it noted, is often more complicated. This insight was not one that I encountered for the first time during my quest, but was instead something I had long suspected to be true. Although the chapter on Rule #1 describes my recent efforts to find real evidence for this intuition, the seeds for this thought had been planted long before. The story of my passion aversion starts in high school, when my friend Michael Simmons and I started a Web design company. We called it Princeton Web Solutions. The origin of our company was modest. It was the late 1990s—the first dot-com boom—and the media was obsessed with stories of teenage CEOs earning millions. Michael and I thought this sounded like fun—certainly a better way to make money than our standard summer jobs. We tried to think up a creative new idea for a high-tech company—something along the lines of a new Amazon.com —but we were stumped and ended up defaulting to an idea that we had earlier vowed we wouldn’t pursue: designing websites. To be clear, we were by no means following our true calling. We were bored, available, and ambitious—a dangerous combination—and starting a company sounded as promising as anything else we could imagine. Princeton Web Solutions wasn’t a meteoric success, but this was Download 1.37 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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