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Deepak Shukla’s Notes So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport:
Hey guys,
I finished reading this book on the 10th of January 2021.
Here’s a synopsis of the book I grabbed from Amazon:
“In an unorthodox approach, Georgetown University professor Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that “follow your passion” is good advice, and sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving their careers. Not only are pre-existing passions rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work, but a focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. ”
And here are my actual notes I took whilst I was listening to this on Audible:
- 2 small bets a month?
- Make b2c cold email work
- Chase deliberate practice
- 4 hours a day
- When committing to brain work do this
- No matter what I’ll keep working on it for one hour even if I faint
- How to approach problem solving
- Learn from lots of little small failures
- Take small steps that can produce big wins
- Make these rapidly and often
- Good example is the ringless Voicemail stuff
- Read the book little bets by Peter Sims
- Make little bets
- Build career capital to help you find your mission
- Act small think big
- Process can take years – eg you know you like marketing but not sure how to deploy it. Keep going deeper
- Great missions require little bets
- Acquiring capital can take time
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- Need to reject shiny pursuits
- Will take a long time before you get good
- Staying on the path critical for your success
- Building Agency Skills =
- Study The Blueprint Training and try to execute as much as possible
- Reread Traction OR listen to his other books
- Get to 100k a month fully remote with only interns as project managers
- Deliberate practice is not enjoyable
- If you’re not uncomfortable you’re probably not growing
- Keep Ion selling and that will make you get better.
- Add Get Known to Skylar profile to do some reach out there?
- Deliberate practice will make you exceptional
- Make sure you don’t watch TV Mon-Thur
- Focus upon something you’re struggling with EVERY DAY
- Your blogging is about your skills. It’s a winner take all market
- Focus upon open opportunities – what access do you have that others don’t?
- Working right still trump’s finding the right work
- Career capital disqualification
- Job presents few opportunities to distinguish yourself by developing relevant skills that are rare and valuable
- Job focusss upon something that you think is useless or actively bad for the world
- Job forces you to work with people you really don’t like
- You need to get good to get good things in life
- If you want Great commission sales people you need to offer great value
- If you want Great interns you need the offer great value
- Traits that define great work
- Creativity
- Impact
- Control
- Instead of focussing upon what the job can offer me
- In professional music – the tape doesn’t lie
- The cloud of external distractions
- Approach your work like a true performer regardless of what you do
- Develop the craftsman mindset for your business.
- Passion comes from achieving competency
