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Cal Newport explains a #CoreIdea about #DoNotFollowYourPassion. Cal explains the background of his book, "So Good They Can't Ignore You". The reality of building a career of what you really love is VERY complicated. The key is following the goal of ending up what your passionate about. Obtaining rare and valuable skills is key to offer in exchange for building a career you love. You need to get skills and then use those skills as leverage. Cal calls this #CareerCapitalTheory Listen to Episode Here (Scroll down to #170DeepQuestionsPodcast) : https://bit.ly/3eEefHK 0:00 Cal's intro 0:28 Cal gives some background 0:47 Cal explains his book So Good They Can't Ignore You 1:40 The most common answer 2:24 Lack of evidence about careers 3:10 The cliche of building jobs out of hobbies 4:20 Follow the goal of ending up what your passionate about 5:13 Cal's discovery 5:40 Offering rare and valuable skills 6:00 Leveraging your skills 6:46 Career Capital Theory 7:13 Deliberate practice 8:14 Cal explains Lifestyle Centric Career Planning 10:55 Cal's summary Connect with Cal Newport: 🔴Visit Cal's BLOG and website: https://bit.ly/3luGhca 🔴Check out Cal's books: https://bit.ly/3ppaafc About Cal Newport: Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University. In addition to his academic research, he writes about the intersection of digital technology and culture. Cal's particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives. Cal is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. He's also the creator of The Time-Block Planner. The videos are considered to be used under the "Fair Use Doctrine" of United States Copyright Law, Title 17 U.S. Code Sections 107-118. Videos are used for editorial and educational purposes only and I do not claim ownership of any original video content. I don't use said video clips in advertisements, marketing or for direct financial gain. All video content in each clip is considered owned by the individual broadcast companies. #CalNewport #DeepWork #DeepLife #DeepQuestions #TimeblockPlanner #WorldWithoutEmail #DeepQuestionsPodcast