{"id":12088,"date":"2013-06-17T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12088"},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T23:59:04","slug":"so-good-they-cant-ignore-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you\/","title":{"rendered":"So Good They Can&#8217;t Ignore You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Follow your passion&#8221; is the dogmatic advice for building a career. But it is woefully incomplete and even misleading for some people. Better advice is &#8220;Become so good they can&#8217;t ignore you&#8221;; that is, become expert in something, and the passion will follow. In other words, flip the mission from &#8220;find your passion so that you can be useful&#8221; to &#8220;be useful so you can find your passion.&#8221; Acquiring expertise is a lot of work, requiring deliberate practice, patience, shrewd acceptance of control of your time, and other meta skills. While this book changed my mind about how skills trump passion, I consider it the only first word in outlining how one goes about this. But it&#8217;s good enough for framing the question that I gave all my young adult kids a copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First priority: become an expert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[45],"tags":[2315,2318],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12091,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088\/revisions\/12091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}