Working right trumps finding the right work.

私人笔记比较乱
Let passion follow your quest to become
"So good that they cannot ignore you."

If you want something that's both rare and valuable, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return.
These rare and valuable skills are your career capital.
The craftsman mindset leads to acquiring career capital.

Career ---------------------------
Focus on skills. That are rare and valuable

Traditional: interest matching career
New: real valuable skills - leverage - steer career direction to match real passion
So: more valuable skills -> more career capital -> capital trade for autonomy , impact, creativity,
        
Looking for careers that
        Rewords skill with flexibility
        As you get better, more control in career.

Traits That Define Great Work:
        - Creativity
        - Impact
        - Control
These traits are rare.
        Most jobs don't offer their employees great creativity, impact, or control over what they do and how they do it.
The traits that define great work are bought with career capital.
Because of this, you don't have to worry about whether you've found your calling - most any work can become the foundation for a compelling career.

But certain jobs are better suited for applying career-capital theory than others.
Three Disqualifiers for Applying the Craftsman Mindset
        1. The job presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself by developing relevant skills that are rare and valuable.
        2. The job focuses on something you think is useless or perhaps even actively bad for the world.
        3. The job forces you to work with people you really dislike.



Craftsmanship VS Passion ---------------------------
Mindset:
        Passion mindset: what can the world offer me?
        Craftsman mindset: what can I offer the world?
Passion:
        Is Meaning sth worth suffer for; Willing to invest time?
        Also
                Passion is the side effect of career that run well
                Nothing with preexisting traits
                Real experts: interest - 1st stage of hard work - better than other people, becomes identity - put hard for the next stage (snow ball effect)
Importance of craftsmanship/expertise:
        How do you get that passion?
        X follow your passion
        But Craftsmanship first

5 habits of craftsman ---------------------------
        1. Which capital market?
        Winner-take-all or auction. ( one killer skill vs Diverse collection of skills)
        2. Capital type?
         In a winner-take-all market, this is trivial: By definition, there's only one type of capital.
                For an auction market, seek open gates: opportunities to build capital that are already open to you. Open gates get you farther faster.
        3. Define GOOD
        Clear goals.
        For a script writer, the definition of "good" was clear: his scripts being taken seriously.
        4. Stretch
        Deliberate practice: the uncomfortable sensation in my head is best approximated as a physical strain, as if my neurons are physically re-forming into new configurations.
        5. Be patient
        Look years into the future for the payoff.
        It's less about paying attention to your main pursuit, and more about your willingness to ignore other pursuits that pop up along the way to distract you.
        Reject shiny new pursuits.




Cutting edge ---------------------------
New opportunity that is important
        By: Recombine what’s already known at the cutting edge
        To see opportunity - Have to be at the cutting edge - real expertise - become so good become expert

The next big ideas in any field are found right beyond the current cutting edge, in the adjacent space that contains the possible new combinations of existing ideas.
A good career mission is similar to a scientific breakthrough - it's an innovation waiting to be discovered in the adjacent possible of your field. If you want to identify a mission for your working life, therefore, you must first get to the cutting edge-the only place where these missions become visible.
Advancing to the cutting edge in a field is an act of "small" thinking, requiring you to focus on a narrow collection of subjects for a potentially long time. Once you get to the cutting edge, however, and discover a mission in the adjacent possible, you must go after it with zeal: a "big" action.

        
        

Motivation requires that you fulfill three basic psychological needs:
        - Autonomy: the feeling that you have control over your day, and that your actions are important
        - Competence: the feeling that you are good at what you do
        - Relatedness: the feeling of connection to other people
Notice, scientists did not find "matching work to pre-existing ability, interests, passions, or personality" as being important for motivation.



Working right trumps finding the right work.

参考
https://sivers.org/book/SoGood