My guest today is Cal Newport, an American non-fiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.
The topic is passion.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Alan Watts
- Why following your passion isn’t such a great idea from Newport’s perspective
- The notion of deliberate practice and the 10000 hour rule, falling back on simplistic strategies that fail
- Passion following success as the true gauge
- Misconceptions about passion
- Thinking of passion as a side-effect of running your career in the right way
- Overcoming difficulty as a necessary step in the process
- The work and analysis Newport has done looking at top chess players
- The systematic aspect of gaining skill and its ties to passion
- Anxiety and failure
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