• passion careers are rare. passion takes time. passion is side effect of mastery.
• A job is a way to pay the bills, a career is a path toward increasingly better work, and a calling is work that’s an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity.
• required to feel intrinsically motivated for your work:
  • 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
• the passion hypothesis convinces people that somewhere there’s a magic “right” job waiting for them, they’ll immediately recognize they were meant to do. when they fail to find this certainty, bad things follow, such as chronic job-hopping and crippling self-doubt.
• 64 percent of young people now say that they’re actively unhappy in their jobs. our generation-spanning experiment with passion-centric career planning can be deemed a failure: The more we focused on loving what we do, the less we ended up loving it.
• the craftsman mindset, a focus on what value you’re producing in your job, and the passion mindset, a focus on what value your job offers you(this is what most people think). the craftsman is a must.
• Most jobs don’t offer their employees great creativity, impact, or control over what they do and how they do it. if you want something that’s both rare and valuable, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return—this.
• The key thing is to force yourself through the work, force the skills to come; that’s the hardest phase.
• 3 disqualifiers for 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.
• This focus on stretching your ability and receiving immediate feedback provides the core of a more universal principle—one. Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable.
• if something is scary, do it. Money is a neutral indicator of value. By aiming to make money, you’re aiming to be valuable.
• great missions are transformed into great successes as the result of using small and achievable projects—little. make a methodical series of little bets about what might be a good direction, learning critical information from lots of little failures and from small but significant wins. Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing.
• For a mission-driven project to succeed, it should be remarkable in two different ways. First, it must compel people who encounter it to remark about it to others. Second, it must be launched in a venue that supports such remarking.
• when you do have enough capital to successfully make a shift toward more control. It’s at this point that you’re most likely to encounter resistance from others in your life, as more control usually benefits only you.
• The more you try to force it, I learned, the less likely you are to succeed.