- Author:: [[Cal Newport]]
- Full Title:: So Good They Can’t Ignore You
- Category:: [[books]]
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- Soon after, your research efforts are expected to release themselves from your advisorâs orbit and follow a self-directed trajectory. Itâs here that if youâre not careful to keep pushing forward, your improvement can taper off to what the performance scientist Anders Ericsson called an âacceptable level,â where you then remain stuck
- if youâre not putting in the effort to become, as Steve Martin put it, âso good they canât ignore you,â youâre not likely to end up loving your workâregardless of whether or not you believe itâs your true calling.
- For them, something as basic as choosing a major became weighted with cosmic significance
- The things that make great work great, it argued, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your career, you need rare and valuable skills to offer in return
- Most knowledge workers avoid the uncomfortable strain of deliberate practice like the plague, a reality emphasized by the typical cubicle dwellerâs obsessive e-mailâchecking habitâfor what is this behavior if not an escape from work thatâs more mentally demanding?
- deliberate practice
- the fact that I had already spent time on easier tasks in the paper built up enough momentum to help push me forward.
- It took, on average, ten minutes for the waves of resistance to die down
- the vast majority of people donât have pre-existing passions
- career capital
- More important than these small successes, however, was the new mindset this test case introduced. Strain, I now accepted, was good. Instead of seeing this discomfort as a sensation to avoid, I began to understand it the same way that a body builder understands muscle burn: a sign that youâre doing something right
- It was as if my mind realized the effort I was about to ask it to expend, and in response it unleashed a wave of neuronal protest, distant at first, but then as I persisted increasingly tremendous, crashing over my concentration with mounting intensity
- time structure
- This type of skill development is hard
- I chose a paper that was well cited in my research niche, but that was also considered obtuse and hard to follow
- follow your passionâ is bad advice
- information structure
- My Hour-Tally Routine
- The traits that can make your life interesting, I learned, had very little to do with intensive soul-searching
- My Research Bible Routine
- while my classmates contemplated their true calling, I went seeking opportunities to master rare skills that would yield big rewards
- Once a week I require myself to summarize in my âbibleâ a paper I think might be relevant to my research
- I would conclude by writing a detailed summary in my own words
- My Theory-Notebook Routine
- I am going to work on this for one hour
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- I would conclude by writing a detailed summary in my own words
- time structure
- My Theory-Notebook Routine
- The traits that can make your life interesting, I learned, had very little to do with intensive soul-searching
- Soon after, your research efforts are expected to release themselves from your advisorâs orbit and follow a self-directed trajectory. Itâs here that if youâre not careful to keep pushing forward, your improvement can taper off to what the performance scientist Anders Ericsson called an âacceptable level,â where you then remain stuck
- Once a week I require myself to summarize in my âbibleâ a paper I think might be relevant to my research
- This type of skill development is hard
- career capital
- follow your passionâ is bad advice
- More important than these small successes, however, was the new mindset this test case introduced. Strain, I now accepted, was good. Instead of seeing this discomfort as a sensation to avoid, I began to understand it the same way that a body builder understands muscle burn: a sign that youâre doing something right
- the vast majority of people donât have pre-existing passions
- the fact that I had already spent time on easier tasks in the paper built up enough momentum to help push me forward.
- The things that make great work great, it argued, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your career, you need rare and valuable skills to offer in return
- Most knowledge workers avoid the uncomfortable strain of deliberate practice like the plague, a reality emphasized by the typical cubicle dwellerâs obsessive e-mailâchecking habitâfor what is this behavior if not an escape from work thatâs more mentally demanding?
- It took, on average, ten minutes for the waves of resistance to die down
- I am going to work on this for one hour
- I chose a paper that was well cited in my research niche, but that was also considered obtuse and hard to follow
- It was as if my mind realized the effort I was about to ask it to expend, and in response it unleashed a wave of neuronal protest, distant at first, but then as I persisted increasingly tremendous, crashing over my concentration with mounting intensity
- while my classmates contemplated their true calling, I went seeking opportunities to master rare skills that would yield big rewards
- My Research Bible Routine
- For them, something as basic as choosing a major became weighted with cosmic significance
- information structure
- deliberate practice
- if youâre not putting in the effort to become, as Steve Martin put it, âso good they canât ignore you,â youâre not likely to end up loving your workâregardless of whether or not you believe itâs your true calling.
- My Hour-Tally Routine