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<h3 class="toggle">Table of Contents</h3>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"><a href="#cooking">Cooking</a></div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#tips_and_tricks">Tips and Tricks</a></div>
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<h1 class="sectionedit1" id="cal_newport">Cal Newport</h1>
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<li class="level1 node"><div class="li"> <a href="http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-bad-at-working-and-heres-what-to-do-about-it/" class="urlextern" title="http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-bad-at-working-and-heres-what-to-do-about-it/" rel="ugc nofollow">Knowledge workers are bad at working!</a>. Recommends deep focus:</div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Get a ritual (shut off computer, turn off lights, make the mood right with a notebook and paper)</div>
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<li class="level2"><div class="li"> Something being painful/mentally stressful means <strong>it's good for you</strong>, not you should try to get out of it. </div>
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<h2 class="sectionedit2" id="become_so_good_they_can_t_ignore_you">Become So Good They Can't Ignore You</h2>
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<a href="http://alexvermeer.com/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you-by-cal-newport-review-and-summary/" class="urlextern" title="http://alexvermeer.com/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you-by-cal-newport-review-and-summary/" rel="ugc nofollow">A nice summary</a>
Disputes the claim that “Follow your dreams” is a good way to find happiness / satisfaction in career.
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<h4 id="steve_jobs">Steve Jobs</h4>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Steve Jobs took a night shift at Atari? in order to free up his money needs and study like a crazy man.</div>
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<li class="level1"><div class="li"> Studied for a long time, did lots of things. Eventually happened upon the idea for building a computer company.</div>
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The path to passion in reality is often way more complicated than what that advice tells us.
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Survey of 500 canadian university students. Their “passion” was hockey, meaning that all but 4% of them would be in trouble following the “follow your dreams” advice.
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The specifics of what you study might matter less than you think.
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Those that enjoy what they do took time to build up a “rare and valuable skill”
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There's not a lot of people in knowledge worker fields that do deliberate practice, focusing on the areas that they are weak and working on them all the time.
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Work backwards from stars, ask them what “capital” they needed to invest in in order to get where they are.
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If you believe that <strong>building up capital</strong> is what makes you love your work, not a matching problem of what job you should pick.
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What's more important is learning how to learn, not the specifics of what you learn.
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