So Good They Can't Ignore You

The important thing about little bets is that they’re bite-sized. You try one. It takes a few months at most. It either succeeds or fails, but either way you get important feedback to guide your next steps. This approach stands in contrast to the idea of choosing a bold plan and making one big bet on its success.

At the time, I had recently started a blog called Study Hacks,

“The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; that’s the hardest phase,”

become, in the words of my favorite Steve Martin quote, “so good that they can’t ignore you.”

the more I noticed that the passion hypothesis convinces people that somewhere there’s a magic “right” job waiting for them, and that if they find it, they’ll immediately recognize that this is the work they were meant to do. The problem, of course, is when they fail to find this certainty, bad things follow, such as chronic job-hopping and crippli

Conclusion #3: Passion Is a Side Effect of Mastery

This young generation has “high expectations for work,” explains psychologist Jeffrey Arnett, an expert on the mindset of the modern postgrad. “They expect work to be not just a job but an adventure[,]… a venue for self-development and self-expression[,]… and something that provides a satisfying fit with their assessment of their talents.”

“On the Surprising Science of Motivation,” author Daniel Pink,

In other words, working right trumps finding the right work.