So Good They Can't Ignore You

To successfully adopt the craftsman mindset, therefore, we have to approach our jobs in the same way that Jordan approaches his guitar playing or Garry Kasparov his chess training—with a dedication to deliberate practice.

It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.

How to Become a Grand Master

Becoming a Craftsman

The Career Capitalists

THREE DISQUALIFIERS FOR APPLYING THE CRAFTSMAN MINDSET The job presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself by developing relevant skills that are rare and valuable. The job focuses on something you think is useless or perhaps even actively bad for the world. The job forces you to work with people you really dislike.7

Part of what makes the craftsman mindset thrilling is its agnosticism toward the type of work you do. The

You need to get good in order to get good things in your working life, and the craftsman mindset is focused on achieving exactly this goal.

THE CAREER CAPITAL THEORY OF GREAT WORK The traits that define great work are rare and valuable. Supply and demand says that if you want these traits you need rare and valuable skills to offer in return. Think of these rare and valuable skills you can offer as your career capital. The craftsman mindset, with its relentless focus on becoming “so goo