The book is about the Question of "How to get a carrier in what you love", this book will not help to answer that, but ask you to forget this question, Follow your passion and get a successful carrier is, kind of overrated. We all want to be successful and subconsciously wanna avoid the pain, I know you are completely ready to work extremely hard "if" you get the right resource and opportunity. and that's a lie we all tell ourselves. The reality is, no one wants to work hard, no one wants to endure the pain, but we all want success as well, Sooooo OH YEAH! Let's try to do what we are already good at, let's follow our passion...! and this is were most of the people go wrong!

Consider a scenario: I am very passionate about coding, I take computer science engineering as my currier path, A big mistake already, took engineering! (just kidding I love engineering), worked hard got an above-average grade and got placed in an average company. Following my passion, right? Now as I go for this 9 -5 job daily, I realize how exhausting it is, sitting for hours debugging one program just to find another one broke. Even above that, I realize I am just managing and organizing the company's data nothing really creative or Interesting. and even above that, there is constant deadline pressure from my infuriating manager. what will happen? Exactly, my passion will die. and coding will be a burden on me and I will be rounding in this job for the rest of my life.

Instead of doing what you love, you should love what you do! and to find how to love what we do author did a lot of interviews with people who are in love with there job. The author was shocked to find that most of these people had no prior passion in their respective fields. it appeared that as they became more experienced and more competent in their jobs, the passion grew in them. A lot of researchers and author concluded that all these passionate people are passionate because they experience these 3 things in their daily routine:

  • Creativity
  • Control
  • Impact
Most of these people were very experienced, and hence at senior posts. So they had creative freedom, they can implement whatever they want. They had control, they knew how, when, and where the work will be done, and because they were so good at there jobs they knew there work is impacting the lives of people. Just a reminder, they did not follow the passion. The passion grew into them as they became better and experienced at it.

Till here I was just taking what's wrong and what should not be done. but here is what you should be doing. According to the author these 3 work Traits, creativity, control, and, Impact are very rare and valuable, so if you want them, you should be worthy. You must have a Rare and Valuable skillset. If you want something rare and valuable you need something rare and valuable to offer. So the solution is simply to have an extremely rare and valuable skill set, be so good that they can't ignore you. Now let's talk about how to develop one.

1. Drop the passion mindset and adopt the craftsman mindset: Passion mindset is, I will not do this because I am not passionate about this. when we don't get any joy from the work, we tend to leave it. but always think of the long run, in craftsman mindset, its all about improving your craft, joy comes and goes but the experience remains, you should just focus on perfecting your craft. what you think, top rankers study because they love it? hell no! but still they just do it. 

2. Take on challenging projects, wanna shine like sun? burn like it. Challenging your self, your skills, your discipline, forces them to develop, even if you fail, you learned a lot more then an easy task. Think of it as bodybuilding, putting stress on the muscle and breaking it, again and again, is the reason it grows, the same goes with your skills. Your current skillset is weak that's why the task is challenging as simple as that. in order to complete the task, you HAVE to develop your skills.

3. Daily Deliberate Practice, you just need 10,000 hours of practice, to become an absolute master at anything. This is extremely important in order to have a rare and valuable skill set. one day running in snow or rain does not make you a runner, it should be daily.

I hope you understood the core concept, the book does not discourage you from following your passion but presents a different point of view to think about. Keep working even if you hate it.

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