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The second control trap is that control creates resistance. The point at which you have acquired enough career capital to get meaningful control over your working life, is exactly the point when you’ve become valuable enough that your current employer will try to prevent (resist) you from making this change. Think about it, having more control (e.g., a pay rise, more days off, leave, leaving) does not benefit your employer and based on this, Newport notions that you should expect employers to resist control. Rule 4) Think small, act big Telling someone to “follow their passion” is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst. The Law of Financial Viability – this law “suggests that when deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, you should ask yourself whether people are willing to pay for it:” If you search Google’s Ngram viewer for “ follow your passion” you will see a big spike upward in modern times.
The second type of structure I deployed was information structure—a way of capturing the results of my hard focus in a useful form.In his book Drive, Dan Pink discusses how control has resulted in an overall better life in terms of better academic results, physical performance, increased productivity, and greater occupational happiness. Within the workplace, the power of control is embodied in a new philosophy called ROWE: Newport proposes that control is one of the most important targets for our investment of our skills and value. If you think about all your dream jobs, you’ll probably find that having control is at the forefront.
a.) I think the book makes some good points regarding passion. It is sometimes difficult to understand passion in the absence of experience. But people have done amazing things because of passion--passion allows people to get beyond horrible circumstances through dedication to something they love. And while the book ridicules the passion mindset, Craftsman Mindset Disqualifier #2 allows for avoiding work that one considers "useless." Why? Probably because it's hard for anyone to have ANY passion for something they consider useless. (And later the development of a sense of mission is lauded to answer the related question "what should I do with my life.") The first is that many of us do not gain something valuable to offer in return for control. Newport argues, and I agree, that we cannot obtain control of our career if we do not have something valuable to offer in return. You hear of hundreds of people quitting their jobs to start new and exciting career adventures and then failing. Why? Well, because they have no value to offer (no career capital) to keep control over their newly found career venture. I will help you scale and profit by streamlining and optimizing your operations and project management through simple, proven, and practical tools.Decide what capital market you’re in. Are you in a winner-take-all market (e.g., book writing) where you win by becoming an excellent writer, or are you in an auction market (e.g., building startups) where you can build many different combinations of skills and still win. Cal Newport discusses an interview done by comedian Steve Martin who was asked how to make it in a difficult industry such as comedy. He answered that you should “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” The relentless focus on constantly improving and producing results is known as the Craftsman Mindset: have this principle about money that overrides my other life rules,” he said. “Do what people are willing to pay for.” People often enjoy difficult work if they have a certain level of control over their time and the outcomes they produce. “Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment. Many organizations are now cultivating results-only work environments, in which people are evaluated by their results, not by the time they spend doing something or other arbitrary measures like how enjoyable they are to work with. Control traps
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