So Good They Can't Ignore You

by Cal Newport

You’ve got to find what you love.… [T]he only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle.

Google’s Ngram Viewer.2 This tool allows you to search Google’s vast corpus of digitized books to see how often selected phrases turn up in published writing over time.

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.

The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours

It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.