Name: So Good They Can't Ignore You
Price: 36.76 NZD
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Author: Cal Newport
ISBN: 9780349415864

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cal Newport

Publisher

Piatkus

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

15 x 23 cm

ISBN13

9780349415864

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport (Author) · Piatkus · Paperback

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Synopsis "So Good They Can't Ignore You"

Cal Newport’s clearly-written manifesto flies in the face of conventional wisdom by suggesting that it should be a person’s talent and skill – and not necessarily their passion – that determines their career path.

Newport, who graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) and earned a PhD. from MIT, contends that trying to find what drives us, instead of focusing on areas in which we naturally excel, is ultimately harmful and frustrating to job seekers.

The title is a direct quote from comedian Steve Martin who, when once asked why he was successful in his career, immediately replied: “Be so good they can’t ignore you” and that’s the main basis for Newport’s book. Skill and ability trump passion.

Inspired by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford University commencement speech in which Jobs urges idealistic grads to chase their dreams, Newport takes issue with that advice, claiming that not only is thsi advice Pollyannish, but that Jobs himself never followed his own advice.

From there, Newport presents compelling scientific and contemporary case study evidence that the key to one’s career success is to find out what you do well, where you have built up your ‘career capital,’ and then to put all of your efforts into that direction.

Cal Newport

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Cal Newport is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and author of eight books, including Digital Minimalism: In Defense of Attention in a Noisy World. You won't find him on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, but you will find him at home with his family, or writing essays for his website calnewport.com.

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